Longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize!
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 MASSACHUSETTS BOOK AWARDS!
Winner of the Grace Paley Prize!
A Boston Authors Club notable book!

“Beautiful, precise and at times bitingly funny. While she does not spare her characters from suffering, her stories often open toward real, complex hope. In a world filled with loss, this is a collection that offers affirmation and solace.”
—Gwen E. Kirby, New York Times Book Review

“In Kalotay’s luminous collection (after the novel Blue Hours), characters seek out sources of hope…. There’s real power in these stories, and it comes from Kalotay’s perceptive writing and ability to wring narrative power from the smart use of understatement. This writer is at the top of her game.”
—Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW)

“Transcendent and triumphant, the short stories collected in the The Archivists reveal human beings at both their lowest and highest moments; they seek connections, even knowing that love might hurt them the most.”
—Foreword Reviews (STARRED REVIEW)

“When a story manages to pull off something that by all logic shouldn’t work, I’m thrilled and floored.… Kalotay makes it look effortless.” —Rebecca Makkai, ElectricLit

“Kalotay is one of our great writers, and these stories are small miracles. More than once I was brought to tears. Reading them is like magically entering a set of photographs, and feeling as the characters feel. Or no—mirrors, because we recognize ourselves.”
—Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less and Less is Lost

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