The Registry of Forgotten Objects: Stories

The Registry of Forgotten Objects: Stories - Paperback

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by Miles Harvey (Author)

Winner, 2025 Society of Midland Authors Award in Adult Fiction
Finalist, 2025 Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award in Fiction
Longlisted for the 2025 Chautauqua Prize

In this haunting debut collection, best-selling author Miles Harvey probes the mysterious relationship between human longings and the secret lives of inanimate objects. In one story, an artist discovers an uncanny ability to transform modern sculptures into priceless ancient treasures. In another, a teenager experiences visions of other people's pasts while vandalizing their abandoned houses. In a third, a grieving couple returns again and again to the beach where their son disappeared, pulling plastic bottles, fishing nets, buoys, and other bits of beach trash from the surf "as if those random bits of wreckage were the untranslated hieroglyphs of some secret language that might help them understand their loss."

Harvey--whose work Dave Eggers called "ludicrously unputdownable"--delivers a constellation of stories that explore the gravitational pull of material things: how they drift into and out of our hands, how they assume new meanings, and the ways they serve as conduits between the present and past, the everyday and incomprehensible. Most of all, he explores how these objects have the power to reveal strange and moving facets of the human condition.

Author Biography

Miles Harvey is the author of The King of Confidence (a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice selection), Painter in a Savage Land, and The Island of Lost Maps. He teaches creative writing at DePaul University in Chicago, where he chairs the Department of English and is a founding editor of Big Shoulders Books, a nonprofit, social-justice publisher. The Registry of Forgotten Objects is his first work of fiction.

Number of Pages: 200
Dimensions: 0.55 x 8.43 x 5.35 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: August 15, 2024
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