Someone Should Know This Story: Selected Stories

By Merrill Joan Gerber

"'Someone Should Know This Story' is both the name of this book and the wish of my heart," writes Merrill Joan Gerber in the introduction to this retrospective collection of twenty-five stories written over a period of four decades, many of which won awards and appeared in widely read periodicals such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Redbook, and Mademoiselle.Gerber takes her teacher Andrew Lytle's advice to "follow the thread back into the labyrinth" of the heart and its secrets. Finding its starting place with the crises of everyday family life-its conflicts, betrayals, confinements, and its devastating losses-she and her characters constantly reencounter themselves and the persistent yearning to "convey to others what we are" with grace and breathtaking honesty.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1963846532
• ISBN13: 9781963846539
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Sagging Meniscus Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Brilliant Collection of Short Stories

This touching collection of personal short stories spans the life of the author and reveals the complexity of her perspective as a wife, mother, and artist. Gerber taught creative writing for decades at CalTech and you can tell from the expertise in her narrative that she is a master of the craft. Many of these stories were previously published in the most celebrated literary periodicals of our time. Brought together as a unified work, these inspiring tales remind us how difficult it is to navigate life’s path while staying true to one’s most heartfelt values. What a literary encore - bravo!