MacGregor Tells the World: A Novel

MacGregor West, orphaned as a boy, is on a quest to understand the mystery surrounding his mother's untimely death. On a foggy San Francisco evening, guided by a stack of old envelopes, Mac finds himself at the mansion of cultural icon Charles Ware and encounters the writer's beautiful and enigmatic daughter, Carolyn. Soon Mac is seduced into the world of the eccentric Ware family and a love affair with a woman whose murky history may be closely linked to his own. MacGregor Tells the World is a ride through present-day San Francisco, a city brimming with memorable characters who help Mac discover just what story is his to tell.

Elizabeth McKenzie is the author of the collection?Stop That Girl,?short-listed for the Story Prize. and the novel?MacGregor Tells the World,?a?Chicago Tribune,?San Francisco Chronicle,?and?Library Journal?Best Book of the year. Her work has appeared in?The New Yorker,?The Atlantic, The?Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses anthology, and has been recorded for NPR's Selected Shorts. She was an NEA Japan US-Friendship Commission Fellow in 2010. McKenzie received her MA from Stanford, was an assistant fiction editor at?The Atlantic, and currently teaches creative writing at Stanford Continuing Studies.