Honored Guest

Joy Williams' Unique Dark Humor

With her singular brand of gorgeous dark humor, Joy Williams explores the various ways—comic, tragic, and unnerving—we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss.

A masseuse breaks her rich client’s wrist bone, a friend visits at the hospital long after she is welcome, and a woman surrenders her husband to a creepily adoring student.

From one of our most acclaimed writers, Honored Guest is a rich examination of our capacity for transformation and salvation.