Instructions for a Funeral

189 pp. With these stories MEans pubshes into new territory, writing with tenderness about fatherhood, marriage, a homeless brother, addiction, the death of a freind at the hands of a serial-killer nurse. One of the most innovative and influential writers of short stories today, David Means is the author of five short story collections and a novel. He grew up in Michigan and teaches writing at Vassar College in New York. He has been nominated for the Frank O'Connor Short International Short Story Prize, The Booker Prize, and was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013.