The Words of Dr. L - & Other Stories

National Book Award finalist Karen E. Bender returns with a short story collection that explores the surreal situation of parents and children separating at different ages through a realistic and speculative lens––from adolescence to empty nest to caring for an aging parent

About the author

KAREN E. BENDER is the author of the story collections The New Order and Refund, a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. She is also the author of the novels Like Normal People and A Town of Empty Rooms. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, Story, Harvard Review, The Yale Review, The Iowa Review, and other magazines. Her stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, and New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, and have won three Pushcart prizes. She has won grants from the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has taught for numerous MFA programs and is currently a visiting writer for the Stony Brook University MFA in creative writing and on the core faculty for the Alma College MFA program.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Bender, Karen E Bender, Karen E. Bender
• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781640095700
• ISBN: 978-1-64009-570-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 216 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Family Life / General, Short Stories, Family life fiction, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, FICTION / Feminist