An Orphanage of Dreams

• Sam Savage's quiet, spare novels have been a mainstay of the CHP list for years, and have earned him a fanbase of critics and readers who gravitate to these meditations on loneliness, isolation, and the difficulty of connection, and these stories are explicitly within that vein.
• Collected by Chris after Sam entered hospice, this will be Sam's last book, and likely a posthumous one. We're hoping it will also be a new entry point for readers and booksellers to appreciate one of the great unsung prose writers of the last 20 years.
• Read as a whole, not as a series of stand-alones, these stories represent a cubist portrait of Sam’s worldview, one that can seem bleak but that is fueled by a desire for meaning, and a grief over all the ways we fail to understand or care for each other.
• Sam's first novel was published when he was 65, and his work since has been a late-in-life flowering that belies the idea that creativity and artistic energy belongs to the young. These last stories are a lovely capstone to a career undertaken by someone who only "emerged" well past middle age.