Stay Here with Me

Robert Olmstead is the author of many acclaimed novels including Coal Black Horse, Far Bright Star, and most recently, Savage Country. The former Director of Creative Writing at Ohio Wesleyan University, Mr. Olmstead and now serves as an emeritus faculty member at the university.Brock Clarke is the author of seven works of fiction, including the bestselling An Arsonist's Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England, as well as the essay collection I, Grape; or The Case for Fiction. He lives in Maine and teaches at Bowdoin College.

Praise for Stay Here with Me“Written with great-hearted love and compassion in a language full of human longing and frailty, this is a book for anyone who was once young.”—Kirkus Reviews“Stay Here with Me is an illuminating and impassioned meditation on love, friendship, family, and death—everything that makes the past worth remembering and cherishing.” —John Dufresne, author of No Regrets, Coyote “Robert Olmstead offers us one brief, acutely remembered summer between his childhood and young adulthood. His eye and heart are tough and quietly, exquisitely, tender. This is a smart, moving, and beautifully written memoir.”—Meredith Hall, author of Beneficence“A novelist’s sometimes lyrical, sometimes taut reminiscences of the summer of 1972 read very much like an appealing, slightly old-fashioned coming-of-age novel . . . quietly moving.”—Publishers Weekly“From the soul-embracing experience of sitting on a mountaintop, to the physical and emotional specialness of first love, to the never-to-be-gotten-over effects of an alcoholic father, Olmstead tests his memory, and the findings are exceptionally poignant.”—Booklist