“Here is the love-child collection of George Saunders and Joy Williams.”

Somewhere a Long and Happy Life Probably Awaits You explores the peculiar places we look for validation, for purpose, for a life we might recognize as wholly our own.

As her off-kilter heroes and heroines struggle with relationships, Sexsmith deftly cuts through raw and intimate moments to show how strangely impervious to their desperate circumstances people can be. Witty and unapologetic, these stories traverse the everyday and the unexpected to delightful effect.

“Jill Sexsmith’s imagination goes where no imagination has gone before. Sexsmith’s story collection Somewhere a Long and Happy Life Probably Awaits You breaks all the shackles and runs free with its heart in its fist. Sure-footed, really funny, poignant, and wise. Here is the love-child collection of George Saunders and Joy Williams. Move over Miranda July, there’s a new voice in town.” — Lisa Moore, Award-winning author of Alligator and February

AWARDS
2017 Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction short-listed
2017 John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer short-listed
2017 McNally Robinson Book of the Year short-listed