Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Richard Ford’s “sinewy and distinctively American voice contains the echoing tones of many [literary] ancestors” (New York Times). Celebrated for creating stories that express the shifting moods of the United States, he is best known for his bestselling novel The Sportswriter and its 1995 sequel Independence Day—winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award—about famed everyman protagonist Frank Bascombe, a character who the New York Times Book Review ranks alongside “Willy Loman and Harry Angstrom in our literary landscape.” His new book is comprised of four novellas set against the backdrop of Hurricane Sandy, and narrated by Frank Bascombe.