Description This haunting short story follows a hunter and his wife as she uncovers an extraordinary ability in herself and seeks to share it with the world. The story examines what it means to trust someone you care about, and questions whether it is necessary to see in order to believe. Anthony Doerr is a once-in-a-generation talent. His 2014 novel, All the Light We Cannot See, won the Pulitzer Prize, and his recent novel Cloud Cuckoo Land is a remarkable feat of speculative fiction that won the National Book Award. Doerr is particularly renowned for his short stories; his 2002 collection The Shell Collector, in which a version of “The Hunter’s Wife” was included, was described by The Boston Globe as “perilously beautiful.”
