Janet Peery‘s new novel is The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs, to be published in Fall 2017. Peery is the author of the story collection Alligator Dance, the novel The River Beyond the World, a finalist for the National Book Award, and a novella and stories titled What the Thunder Said, which won the Library of Virginia Prize for Fiction and the WILLA Award from Women Writing the West. She has been awarded the Whiting Writers Award, the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Fiction
Spring 2007
No Liquor Sold to Indians past Dark
In their after-school race through north Wichita on streets crowded with war-boom bungalows, hamburger stands, and storefront markets, Jesse beat his friend Pete Boylan to the alley machine shop for […]
Fiction
Winter 2005
Great Men and Famous Deeds
After my wife forgave me and the long week of questions ended with the resolve to put my mistake behind us, she asked a last—rhetorical, unanswerable. It struck me funny […]