‘Inventive and appealing’ Independent on Sunday ‘The American short story's vintage year continues … Gently, Galchen interrogates the nature and necessity of innovation with results that prove hopeful, funny and innovative’ Max Liu, Independent ‘Dazed … Strikingly beautiful … Galchen's stories are funny and inventive. Many of them slyly translate the concerns of 19th-century fiction – money, property, gender – into the affectless, ironic voice of modern American fiction … One of the pleasures of American Innovations is the way the stories quietly echo and seep into one another… The prose is always expertly controlled’ David Wolf, Guardian Praise for ‘Atmospheric Disturbances’: 'What is strongest in the novel is the delicacy with which Galchen evokes the bewildering randomness of Leo’s visionary insanity … An original and affecting novel, one that knows how to move from the comic to the painful.’ James Wood, New Yorker 'Genuinely suspenseful, fresh and wry … Galchen is a writer to be watched.’ The Economist ‘A playful and moving novel.’ Daily Telegraph ‘Playful yet profound, Murakami-esque yet original, analytical yet heartbreaking. It’s an absolutely stunning and unforgettable debut.’ Vendela Vida, author of ‘Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name’ 'A powerful novel about love, longing, Doppler radar, and the true appreciation of a nice cookie with your tea. “Atmospheric Disturbances” is fantastic.' Nathan Englander, author of 'The Ministry of Special Cases'

• The short story is going from strength to strength – Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel, Lydia Davis has won the International Man Booker Prize, George Saunders won the Folio Prize – and Rivka Galchen’s collection is yet more proof of this. • The collection follows her critically acclaimed first novel ATMOSTPHERIC DISTURBANCES. This has been translated into over 20 languages and won the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. It was also a finalist for the 2008 Governor General's Award, one of Canada's most prestigious literary prizes. • Rivka was chosen as one of the ‘New Yorker’ 20 under 40 alongside Jonathan Safran Foer (over 250,000 copies sold), Nicole Krauss (more than 180,000 copies sold), Joshua Ferris (over 190,000 copies sold) and Gary Shteyngart (over 38,000 copies sold). • She has been compared to David Foster Wallace, Helen DeWitt, Haruki Murakami and Kafka. Competition: Margaret Thatcher; Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Margaret Thatcher; Transit; Get In Trouble. Margaret Thatcher;Haruki Murakami; Rachel Cusk; Kelly Link;