The Age of Migration: A Novella and Stories - Paperback

by Kai Maristed (Author)

Winner of the 2024 Kevin McIlvoy Book Prize, The Age of Migration follows people on the move-- across borders, families, and inner lives-- confronting what motion promises and what it costs. Set in intimate, unsettled places around the globe, these stories trace journeys shaped by choice, necessity, and circumstance. Travelers venture into unfamiliar terrain; workers and families face sudden moral reckonings; acts meant as care ripple into unforeseen consequences. With clarity, restraint, and emotional precision, The Age of Migration illuminates quiet negotiations of belonging and responsibility, and asks what it means to carry oneself forward in a world defined by constant change.

Author Biography

Kai Maristed is the author of three novels: Out After Dark (Pen/Hemingway finalist), Fall, and Broken Ground, and the short story collection Belong to Me. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, AGNI, The American Scholar, among others. She heads the anti-poverty NGO Technology Exchange Lab, Inc.. A translator and playwright fluent in three languages, she has taught at the MFA level at Harvard University, Emerson College, and the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She divides her time between Paris, France and Wellfleet, Massachusetts.