Those Who Vanish

Patricia Grace King grew up in western North Carolina and has since lived in Spain, Guatemala, and the UK, where she now resides. Her short fiction has won the Miami University Novella Prize, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, the Florida Review’s Leiby Prize, and the Kore Press Fiction Award. Other stories have been published by Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Narrative, and Nimrod.

The stories in Patricia Grace King’s ravishing Those Who Vanish chronicle the consequences of inhabiting spaces both physical and psychic where one doesn’t naturally belong. In stories ranging from conflict-ravaged Guatemala to the American Midwest and beyond, King’s unrelenting exploration of our need to survive while retaining our humanity propels these narratives into surprising and heart-breaking terrain. As one character poignantly asks of another, ‘The real question is, do you want to be found?’ Those Who Vanish doesn’t present us with easy answers but masterfully interrogates what it means to be lost and the often-blinding nature of self-discovery.