The Things You Left

THE THINGS YOU LEFT is a thirty-seven story collection built on magical realism and seemingly inconsequential moments between sweet and strange loners that meet in the space between the heart and the mind.

A couple throw plates at each other for therapy, a cat shape shifts into a woman, a man is obsessed with canned tuna, a woman relives time with her lover through objects left behind. Sometimes humorous, sometimes sad, The Things You Left explores love, addiction, relationships, and loss.

About the author

Raki is a first-generation American, queer, Jewish writer. She is the author of The Things You Left and The Memory House, both Minnesota Book Award finalists. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and has been shortlisted and nominated for several other awards, including the Pushcart Prize for Fiction and the Pen Faulkner Award in Fiction. Her queer travel novel, No One's Leaving, is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press in 2025. She teaches creative writing both at The Minneapolis College of Art and Design and at Augsburg University.

Product details

• Authors: Raki Kopernik
• Publisher: Unsolicited Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781950730193
• ISBN: 978-1-950730-19-3
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 201 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Belletristik: Erzählungen, Kurzgeschichten, Short Stories, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Contemporary Women, Fiction - General