Stories from the Tenants Downstairs TikTok a door opens—and so do

a door opens—and so do hearts

Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality

and full of bees

on the very same night the town hosted a memorial for the sixth-year anniversary of the deaths of Andie Bell and Sal Singh

The result is a collection humming with her trademark wit and style—and with the electricity of a seasoned artist flexing her virtuosity with a new medium

Stories from the Tenants Downstairs TikTok a door opens—and so doFinalist for the Gotham Book Prize, the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award, and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence * Longlisted for the Story Prize Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Chicago Review of Books, LitHub, and Electric Lit A standout achievementAmerican speech is an underused commodity in contemporary fiction and its a joy to find such a vital example of it here. The Wall Street Journal