Kim Brooks, the per­son­al essays edi­tor at Salon, is a grad­u­ate of the Iowa Writ­ers’ Work­shop, where she was a Teach­ing-Writ­ing Fel­low. She has been award­ed fel­low­ships by the Mich­en­er-Coper­ni­cus Foun­da­tion, the Cor­po­ra­tion of Yad­do, and the Posen Foun­da­tion. Her sto­ries have been pub­lished in One Sto­ry, Glim­mer Train, The Mis­souri Review, and oth­er jour­nals; she has received four hon­or­able men­tions in the Best Amer­i­can Short Sto­ries series. Her essays have appeared in Salon, New York, and Buz­zfeed. Her mem­oir Small Ani­mals (Flatiron/​Macmillan) is forth­com­ing in 2017. The House­guest is her first novel.

Before Pearl Harbor