© ANNE DALTON
JOY WILLIAMS is the author of four novels, five story collections, and the book of essays Ill Nature. She’s been nominated for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, and Laramie, Wyoming.
KAREN RUSSELL is the author of the novel Swamplandia, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; the story collections Vampires in the Lemon Grove and St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves; and the novella Sleep Donation. In 2013, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant.”
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am very grateful to Yaddo, to the Guggenheim Foundation, and to the National Foundation for the Arts for their assistance.
—JOY WILLIAMS
BOOKS BY JOY WILLIAMS
NOVELS
State of Grace
The Changeling
Breaking and Entering
The Quick and the Dead
STORY COLLECTIONS
Escapes
Taking Care
Honored Guest
The Visiting Privilege: New & Collected Stories
Ninety-Nine Stories of God
NON-FICTION
Ill Nature
The Florida Keys
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Introduction © 2018 by Karen Russell
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: Williams, Joy, 1944- author.
Title: The changeling / by Joy Williams.
Description: Portland, OR : Tin House Books, [2017]
Identifiers: LCCN 2017039366 | ISBN 9781941040898 (hardcover : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9781941040904 (ebook)
Classification: LCC PS3573.I4496 C48 2017 | DDC 813/.54--dc23
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