SHE WAS LIKE THAT

“Kate Walbert is inarguably one of our foremost chroniclers of the existential dilemma of being not just a woman, but a human. With astonishing precision, alive and alert to the complications embedded in even the simplest exchange, Walbert slips into the fissures and fault lines of her utterly compelling characters doing the best of what a writer can do: she makes the familiar strange, and in doing so, reveals the glorious complexity of a world we only think we know.”
—Marisa Silver, author of Mary Coin

Longlisted for the 2019 Story Prize

One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2019

Read “To Do” in The New Yorker, from She Was Like That: New and Selected Stories