ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Christopher Coake is the author of the novel You Came Back and the story collection We’re in Trouble winner of the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship. His new collection, You Would Have Told Me Not To, RELEASED TODAY by Delphinium. In 2007 he was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. His short fiction has been anthologized in collections such as Best American Mystery Stories 2004; The Best American Noir of the Century; and Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories; and in numerous literary journals. Coake received his MFA in fiction from the Ohio State U and an MA in fiction from Miami U of Ohio. He is an Associate Professor of English at the U of Nevada, Reno. He directs the MFA program in creative writing there where he lives with his wife, Stephanie Lauer, and their two dogs. 

ABOUT THE BOOK - YOU WOULD HAVE TOLD ME NOT TO

These stories arrive amid the #Metoo movement. They examine the fallout from failed relationships between men and women, relationships that have crumbled under the weight of betrayal, misplaced hopes, illness and from masculinity at its most toxic and misguided. These fictions ask very contemporary questions: how do ex-spouses learn to live again in proximity to one another; how do we make peace with our bodies and their own worst impulses; how do we learn to turn and face, full-on, the worst mistakes of our younger selves?