A must own collection...
“They Always Wave Goodbye and Other Stories is a collection filled with harrowing beauty and tender wisdom. From young children who must parent their parents in “The Fairy House,” to a mother who learns that loving is the hardest thing in “The Easiest Thing,” these emotionally intelligent stories resonate long after reading. Continuing the tension-taut theme of familial relationships, in the haunting title story, a West-Virginia-born daughter returns home from her new life in Chicago to watch her brilliant father disappear to dementia one memory at a time. Be advised that these stories are not highlights; the collection itself is the highlight, proving that even the hard times can hearten us. Katie Piccirillo Sherman is a storyteller to watch!”
-Rhonda Browning White, author of The Lightness of Water
Award-Winning Short Stories
They Alway Wave Goodbye
Motherhood is as diverse as the women who bear the title. Katie Piccirillo Sherman’s debut collection, They Always Wave Goodbye, explores the heartbreak, joy, and strange circumstances mothers and daughters find themselves in. The stories within cover everything from reckless choices — like heaving a full beer bottle into a crowded trailer park — to recreating a family’s recipe for fried cauliflower.
This short-story collection thoroughly investigates how parenthood changes mothers, and inevitably, how impenetrable their cores ultimately are.
- Winner of the 2018 Freedom Contest through theSame
- Nominee for multiple Pushcart Prizes
- Finalist for New Letters' Fiction contest in 2018 and YesYes Books Open Read contest in 2019