A New Day

“Endlessly fascinating characters propel these wonderfully ardent stories.” —Kirkus Reviews“… will leave you thinking about your relationships and choices long after you’ve put it down.”—MicroLit Almanac“I loved the loops and tangles in this gorgeous net of stories. It’s such a beautifully mapped world, where every friendship has its betrayals and rescues and every city is one in which ‘you were bound, eventually, to bump into everyone you’d ever slept with.’ A wonderful and clear-sighted book.” —Joan Silber, author of Secrets of Happiness and Improvement“Sex, money, ambition, friendship; the myriad challenges of ordinary survival in A New Day are handled with wry and artful insight. Beautifully complex characters are pieces of a puzzle in this fine collection, while each story is both distinct and part of the whole.” —Louise Marburg, author of You Have Reached Your Destination“A wise and tender portrait of chance encounters and missed connections, Sue Mell’s A New Day is a love letter to the people we meet along the way and those we leave behind. I loved it.” —Daisy Alpert Florin, author of My Last Innocent Year“Intimate and immediate, Sue Mell’s A New Day expertly weaves together stories about unspoken desires, missed connections, and people searching for intimacy amidst their fear of truly being seen. An enthralling and visceral collection about both our inescapable interconnectedness and loneliness, the role chance plays in the decisions we make, and how even the most seemingly small moments irrevocably impact our lives.” —Ronit Plank, author of Home Is a Made-Up Place“Clear prose, vivid scenes, and snappy dialogue bring Mell’s well-developed characters to life. These linked stories explore relationships—evocative snapshots revealing desire, love, loss, and everything in between.” —Corie Adjmi, author of Life and Other Shortcomings“In these stories, Sue Mell crafts vivid, deeply human characters and sends them pinballing off of each other, rocketing or drifting into next chapters, next relationships, new cities, and old haunts. This collection beautifully captures the delicious chaos of real life, lived over decades of mingled success and disappointment, of missed connections and second chances.” —Caitlin Horrocks, author of Life Among the Terranauts“Sue Mell brilliantly crosses three decades of heartbreak, desire, and discovery in these sharp and nimble stories. The trio of women at the heart of A New Day are whip-smart, creative, vulnerable, determined. I would follow them anywhere.” —Laura van den Berg, author of State of Paradise

Sue Mell writes fiction and creative nonfiction in both short and long forms. Her work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Hippocampus Magazine, Jellyfish Review, Cleaver Magazine, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from Warren Wilson and was a 2020 BookEnds fellow at SUNY Stony Brook. She lives in Queens, New York, where she cares for her aging mom and a gray tuxedo cat named Poppy.

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