The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

Stories

This collection contains five stories about people confronting mortality, regret, addiction, and the persistence of memory. Its narrators include an advertising writer, a prisoner, and a writer looking back on people he has known. Set largely in contemporary America, the stories move between ordinary encounters and unsettling experiences that alter how characters understand their lives. Their shared concern is the uncertain relationship between past actions, human connection, and possible redemption.

by Denis Johnson