Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bet They’ll Miss Us When We’re Gone | 1991 | Marianne Wiggins | Buy |
Bet They’ll Miss Us When We’re Gone (1991) is Marianne Wiggins’s only short story collection. Published during the period when she was living in hiding with Salman Rushdie following the fatwa, the book shows a writer working through themes of absence, dislocation, and sudden change.
The collection features Wiggins’s dense, image-rich prose style, the same quality that would later earn her major award nominations for her novels. Readers who enjoy her longer fiction will find these stories a good entry point into her work, or a companion piece that fills in the gaps between her novels.