The Hopefuls

By: Elizabeth Oness

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Paperback | 13 May 2025

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196 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 1.14

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From award-winning writer Elizabeth Oness comes a new collection of rapturous and compelling stories about ordinary people and their joys, slights, families, and failures. The Hopefuls shimmers with characters destined to keep desiring, searching, and living . . . and finding themselves again and again.

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"In Oness's hands, even the smallest, most ordinary lives loom large."

-David Jauss, author of Glossolalia

"A beautiful collection about what happens after the dreams of true love, elite instructors, and academic jobs crash against the ballast of dwindling economies and cheating partners. 'Every year the hopeful wave comes in, shining and eager, but by the following year, especially among the poets, the tide turns.' Oness is too good a storyteller to leave it there. With her literary eye and attention to our current unease, Oness writes about the surprising ways the vulnerable and misunderstood are taken down or survive that pulling tide."

-Maureen Aitken, author of The Patron Saint of Lost Girls

"Crafted by a gifted, clear-eyed writer, The Hopefuls is a first-rate collection of pitch-perfect stories that reminds us of the many ways we connect, disconnect, delight, and disappoint. In story after story, Elizabeth Oness brilliantly navigates the intimate terrain of the hidden heart, calling us to reconsider the secret dreams and sorrows that occupy our lives."

-Sheila O'Connor, author of Evidence of V

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