This haunting short story follows a hunter and his wife as she uncovers an extraordinary ability in herself and seeks to share it with the world. Through an exploration of dreams, love, life, and death, Anthony Doerr examines what it means to trust someone you care about, and questions whether it is necessary to see in order to believe.
Anthony Doerr is an author who is best known for his masterful exploration of themes such as choice, innocence, war, and memory. His most celebrated works include All the Light We Cannot See, which won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, as well as his novel Cloud Cuckoo Land, which was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award. Doerr’s short stories and essays have won five O. Henry Prizes and been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, New American Stories, The Best American Essays, The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, and many other places.
Doerr is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, and went on to major in history at Bowdoin College. Additionally, he earned an MFA at the Bowling Green State University.
