Liz Moore

"When Barbara Van Laar is discovered missing from her summer camp bunk one morning in August 1975, it triggers a panicked, terrified search. Losing a camper is a horrific tragedy under any circumstances, but Barbara isn't just any camper, she's the daughter of the wealthy family who owns the camp--as well as the opulent nearby estate, and most of the land in sight. And this isn't the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared in this region: Barbara's...

In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, Kacey lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. Her sister, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat. They don't speak anymore, but Mickey never stops worrying about her sibling. When Kacey disappears-- at the same time that a mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey's district-- she becomes obsessed with finding the culprit-- and her sister-- before it's too late. --...

When Liz Moore pulled-up-stakes at age fifty and toured America in her car, she didn't know where the road would lead her. She was able to work "security" at the Grand Canyon, have fun in New York City, share a house with a globe-trotting professor, and overcame chaos as a waitress in New England. "Making it home" refers to making each town a home for the time she was there. It also means rushing home to deal with crises, including a devastating...

En un barrio de Philadelphia sacudido por la crisis de opioides, dos hermanas antaño inseparables se encuentran en una encrucijada. Una de ellas, Kacey, es una adicta que vive en la calle. La otra, Mickey, es policía y patrulla por esas mismas calles en su ronda. Ya no se hablan, pero Mickey nunca deja de preocuparse por su hermana. Un día, Kacey desaparece al tiempo que comienza una misteriosa serie de asesinatos en el distrito de Mickey, quien...

Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."