Mary-Beth Hughes has been critically acclaimed since her first novel, Wavemaker II was published in 2003. Hughes has been championed by Donald Antrim, Yiyun Li, Rick Moody, Mary Gaitskill, David Gates and Lorrie Moore. Her sharp, spare literary style will draw fans of Ann Beattie, Alice Munro, Annie Proulx, Lydia Millet, and Amy Hempel. Mary-Beth Hughes’s first novel, Wavemaker II , was a New York Times Notable Book. Her collection, Double Happiness , won a Pushcart Prize and was also...