The Washington Post has named The Realm of Last Chances, by alum Steve Yarbrough (1985), among its Notable Fiction of 2013!
Michael Lindgren writes, "This beautifully wrought book concerns Kristin and Cal Stevens, a middle-aged California couple who settle in a small town in Massachusetts. The story tracks their halting assimilation into a world that feels foreign and brittle, and it is so keenly observed that its depiction of these lost souls conveys outsize emotional force."