# The Secret Habit of Sorrow

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- Book: [The Secret Habit of Sorrow](https://www.bookquiver.com/victoria-patterson/the-secret-habit-of-sorrow) ([The Secret Habit of Sorrow.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/victoria-patterson/the-secret-habit-of-sorrow.md))
- Authors: [Victoria Patterson](https://www.bookquiver.com/victoria-patterson)
- Publisher: counterpoint
- ISBN: 978-16-4009-052-1
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2018-07-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Victoria Patterson, whose writing Vanity Fair has called " brutal, deeply empathetic, and emotionally wrenching,"" returns with a new collection of stories that contains echoes of Denis Johnson and Raymond...