Between the Headlines ebook

A man is killed in Norfolk, Virginia. The city makes a statement. The cameras arrive, and then they leave.

These eight stories are about everyone the coverage left behind.

The sailor standing at a graveside in dress blues he hasn't earned. The police chief rehearsing words he no longer believes. The reporter who realizes she has spent years remembering how a young man died and forgetting how he lived. The prosecutor carrying a file home to a kitchen table. The mother writing a letter to a stranger because nobody remembers her son's name anymore. The barbershop on a Saturday morning, teaching a lesson that has been handed down for generations — and a man who can no longer tell whether those rules are instructions or prayers.

A companion to the novel YZ, this collection gathers all eight stories — previously available only as individual releases — into one volume for the first time.

Some stories make the news. These are the ones that happen underneath it.