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ABOUT SAD GROWNUPS

In her powerful debut, Stuber, an acclaimed writer of short fiction, explores the search for joy in a dying world, where being an adult means performing narrow versions of acceptability on repeat. Equal parts sad, funny, and poignant, each story is a small roadmap for release from the strictures of American consumerism, gender roles, and the strain of living through climate crisis. 

The stories in this collection piece together a cast of outsiders, many of whom have previously connected more to places and ideas than to other people. In their escapist journeys, these charaters find moments of human connection, liberation, and even happiness. According to Stuber, this collection is “for people who’ve been sad and tried not to be.”  

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Amy Stuber’s writing has appeared in the New England Review, Flash Fiction America, Ploughshares, The Idaho Review, Cincinnati Review, Triquarterly, American Short Fiction, Joyland, and elsewhere. She’s the recipient of the Missouri Review’s 2023 William Peden Prize in fiction, winner of the 2021 Northwest Review Fiction Prize, and runner-up for the 2022 CRAFT Short Fiction Prize. Her work received a special mention in Pushcart Prize XLIV, appeared on the Wigleaf Top 50 in 2021, has been nominated for Best of the Net, and appears in Best Small Fictions 2020 and 2023. She has a PhD in English, has taught college writing, and worked in online education for many years.

You can find her work at https://www.amystuber.com/.