Sacred Rage: Selected Stories

＂Steven Heighton had this stunning range of voice in his stories. He would go anywhere. He always surprised you.＂--Michael Ondaatje

Following his New Yorker Best of 2023 collection, Instructions for the Drowning, Sacred Rage selects stories spanning the range of the late Steven Heighton’s career as a fiction writer.

Steven Heighton (1961-2022) was a writer and musician. His nineteen previous books include the story collection Instructions for the Drowning, a New Yorker Best Book of 2023; the novels Afterlands, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, and the bestselling The Shadow Boxer; the Writers’ Trust Hilary Weston Prize finalist memoir Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos; and The Waking Comes Late, winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry.