HOPE

$19.95

Set in a small island community called Hope, Alaska, this fresh and contemporary collection of linked stories drops us into the lives of a host of quirky town characters striving for freedom, meaning, and utopia in a wilderness of startling beauty and danger. It poses the culminating question: To what extent can we, should we, bury the past?

Set in a small island community called Hope, Alaska, this fresh and contemporary collection of linked stories drops us into the lives of a host of quirky town characters striving for freedom, meaning, and utopia in a wilderness of startling beauty and danger. It poses the culminating question: To what extent can we, should we, bury the past?

THE WOMEN
$17.95

Praise for HOPE

Sommer Schafer is one of the best short story writers out there; definitely one of my favorites. Her writing is fabulous—her descriptions are always precise, her observations keen and interesting. And she’s subtly or laugh-out-loud funny.

YOSH

 

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About SOMMER SCHAFER

Sommer Schafer is Senior Editor of The Forge Literary Magazine and widely published, including a Distinguished Story in Best American Short Stories 2019. Her first book, THE WOMEN, a collection of short stories, was released by Unsolicited Press in November 2023.  She lives on Coast Miwok land with her family, a rescue dove, and a bearded dragon.

 

  • Genre: Fiction

    ISBN: 978-1-963115-47-5

    Publication Date: November 25, 2025

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