Seven Stories about Tammy - Paperback

by Elizabeth McCracken (Author)

"A brilliant piece of writing. This book is so funny, profound, and short that you may just want to read it over again, immediately, as I did."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

"Positively delicious."--Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe

Morris Harkin brings his new girlfriend Tammy to meet his family. She is not at all who they expected. But who, really, is Tammy? Across seven vignettes, in Elizabeth McCracken's witty and tender fashion, we see Tammy through the eyes of the Harkin family throughout the years, and a picture of an insecure and unhappy family emerges.

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Author Biography

Elizabeth McCracken is the author of nine books: Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry, The Giant's House, Niagara Falls All Over Again, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, Bowlaway, The Souvenir Museum, The Hero of This Book, and A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction. She's received grants and fellowships from United States Artists, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Liguria Study Center, the American Academy in Berlin, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her stories have won three Pushcart Prizes, two National Magazine Awards, and have appeared in five editions of The Best American Short Stories. She was awarded the 2026 PEN/Bernard and Ann Malamud Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story. She lives in Bath, Somerset, with her family.