A poignant and timely collection about friendship, community, connection and belonging
A stranger learns how to adapt to a new town, a family struggles with the death of a loved one, and a small girl contemplates the meaning of friendship in Siamak Vossoughi's new story collection, The Friend Seekers. These taut, singular stories are disarming in their simplicity but are radical in their call to be a different kind of neighbor, citizen, and friend. Vossoughi's The Friend Seekers is a tender collection for readers of Lorrie Moore and Lydia Davis.
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Siamak Vossoughi is an Iranian-American writer living in Seattle. He is the author of The Friend Seekers (2026), A Sense of the Whole (2019) which was selected by Victor LaValle for the Orison Fiction Prize and Better Than War (2015), winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award. His writing has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, and Tupelo Quarterly.