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Name: The world to come
Author: Jim Shepard

Jim Shepard’s fifth collection unites ten stories that move across borders and centuries. From the harrowing journey of English Arctic explorers to a modern American confronting the hidden dangers of crude‑oil trains, from the pioneering balloon flights of eighteenth‑century France to the isolated lives of two nineteenth‑century frontier housewives, Shepard weaves personal drama with historical calamity, revealing how family and everyday experience intersect with global upheaval.

First publish date: 2017

Genre: General Fiction/Short Stories

Authors: Jim Shepard

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