"Stories"--cover.

In her debut collection, Izzy Wasserstein pries the lid off fourteen different worlds from an already impressive short fiction career. In these pages, you'll meet ne'er-do-wells and orphans, investigators and revolutionaries, diplomats and doctoral students. Wasserstein has a gift for putting her finger on the meaty parts of grief, the catalysts of change, and the pain points of community. This collection contains fourteen stories, two of which have never been seen before! "Case of the Soane Museum Thefts" unveils a crime of magical curation for its protagonist to puzzle over, while "Blades, Stones, and the Weight of Centuries" brings us the heir to an empire poised at the threshold of change.

Izzy Wasserstein writes brilliantly about loss, revolution, change, and community--and I am so glad to see her short work collected in this exciting new book from Neon Hemlock. In All the Hometowns You Can't Stay Away From, Wasserstein explores trans and queer experiences in semi-familiar landscapes--some of them Midwestern, others unfolding in spaces and times far away. She has a memorable literary voice, and her stories of alienation and survival will haunt and sustain me for years to come."--,R.B. Lemberg, author of The Four Profound Weaves