Onlookers

* “Supple, superb.” — The Boston Globe * “A deft mash of lonesomeness and wit.” — Chicago Tribune * “Her best in more than two decades.” — The New York Times * Award-winning short story writer Ann Beattie returns with a “sophisticated, idiosyncratic, and witty” ( Star Tribune , Minneapolis) collection of linked stories set in Charlottesville, Virginia, in a moment of unrest. Onlookers is collection of extraordinary stories about people living in the same Southern town whose lives intersect in su