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Evensong

Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize 2026 “Stewart O’Nan has been one of the best chroniclers of the lives of American women.”—Susan Straight…

Ocean State

Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O’Nan’s latest is a crushing, beautifully written, and profoundly compelling novel about sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the terrible things love makes us do

Wish You Were Here

“[O’Nan’s] finest and deepest novel to date . . . The action rises and ebbs with the rhythms of daily life—meals, swimming, after-dinner videos,…

The Speed Queen

“If you haven’t read Stewart O’Nan, you have some catching up to do.”—Stephen King  “Scathing and intelligent . . . Makes the skin crawl.”…

In the Walled City

“O’Nan has the rare gift of shifting perspective, often in the same story, without any sacrifice of intensity or authenticity. In this book we…

Everyday People

“o’Nan’s protean imagination, if it can be summed up at all, seems to be civic. . . . He is a writer who reaches…