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From the Booker Prize nominee and New York Times bestselling author of Great Circle a piercing irresistiblefirst collection of short stories exquisite in their craft and audacious in their range

A love triangle plays out over decades on a Montana dude ranch A hurdler and a gymnast spend a single night together in the Olympic village Mistakes and mysteries weave an intangible web around an old mans deathbed in Paris connecting disparate destinies On the slopes of an unfinished ski resort a young woman searches for her vanished lover A couples Romanian honeymoon goes ominously awry and in the mesmerizing title story a former child actress breaks with her life in a Hollywood cult

In these and other stories knockout after knockout Maggie Shipstead delivers another extraordinary New York Times work of fiction and seals her reputation as a writer of breathtaking range and skill Kirkus Reviews Rich in imagination and dazzling in its shapeshifting style You Have a Friend in 10A excavates the complexities of love sex and life in ways unsparing and hilarious sharpeyed and tender