Let Them Tell You
Let Them Tell You gathers selected stories from Nancy Lord’s three previous story collections—each from a different decade—and adds ten new ones, including a novella. Some stories draw on personal experience, others from newspaper headlines, historical events, and myths. Some respond to earlier writers and their literary works. Some are serious about social concerns and matters of justice; some are seriously funny. Animals, children, seekers and dreamers, in one case an entire community—they all take turns as central characters. This collection, tracing Lord’s writerly influences and her concerns for both humankind and the natural world, suggests the ways in which writers and readers alike travel through time and imagined lives, learning as they go about cruelties, compassion, and the human heart. Alaska is most certainly a presence here, but so is the wide world and what we make of it. An introduction by the author and an afterword by scholar Eric Heyne supplement the stories with context about the writer’s journey and the evolution of Alaska literature.
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Let Them Tell You gathers selected stories from Nancy Lord’s three previous story collections—each from a different decade—and adds ten new ones, including a novella. Some stories draw on personal experience, others from newspaper headlines, historical events, and myths. Some respond to earlier writers and their literary works. Some are serious about social concerns and matters of justice; some are seriously funny. Animals, children, seekers and dreamers, in one case an entire community—they all take turns as central characters. This collection, tracing Lord’s writerly influences and her concerns for both humankind and the natural world, suggests the ways in which writers and readers alike travel through time and imagined lives, learning as they go about cruelties, compassion, and the human heart. Alaska is most certainly a presence here, but so is the wide world and what we make of it. An introduction by the author and an afterword by scholar Eric Heyne supplement the stories with context about the writer’s journey and the evolution of Alaska literature.
Coming Soon!
- University of Alaska Press, July 2026
