Sacred Rage
Selected Stories
"Steven Heighton had this stunning range of voice in his stories. He would go anywhere. He always surprised you."—Michael Ondaatje
Following his New Yorker Best of 2023 collection, Instructions for the Drowning, Sacred Rage selects stories spanning the range of the late Steven Heighton’s career as a fiction writer.
Steven Heighton (1961–2022) was a writer and musician. His nineteen previous books include the story collection Instructions for the Drowning, a New Yorker Best Book of 2023; the novels Afterlands, a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, and the bestselling The Shadow Boxer; the Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize finalist memoir Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos; and The Waking Comes Late, winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry.