# The Souvenir Museum

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- Book: [The Souvenir Museum](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-mccracken/the-souvenir-museum) ([The Souvenir Museum.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-mccracken/the-souvenir-museum.md))
- Authors: [Elizabeth McCracken](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-mccracken)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7359-473-9
- Published: 2021-06-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'One of my favourite writers' Nick Hornby One of the most acclaimed writers of our day, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to date. A recent widower and his adult son ferry to a craggy Scottish island in search of puffins. An actress who plays a children's game-show villainess ushers in the New Year with her deadbeat half-brother. And on a trip to a water park with their son, two fathers each confront a deep-rooted personal fear. With sentences that crackle and spark and showcase her trademark wit, McCracken shows how the mysterious bonds of family are tested, transformed, fractured, and fortified. 'McCracken has a gift for spotting the comic potential in situations many of us have endured... Her prose is stippled with just-so observations' Observer 'McCracken is a totally assured performer: even seemingly throwaway perceptions are often memorably poetic, and there is a hint of melancholy under the comedy' Sunday Times 'This incisive, warm-blooded collection of stories is populated by outsiders... McCracken illuminates qualities of human nature through fragments of her characters' lives' New Yorker