Jessica Shattuck

Jessica Shattuck is the New York Times bestselling author of novels, The Women in the Castle, Perfect Life, and The Hazards of Good Breeding (a New York Times Notable Book and Boston Globe Best Book of the Year). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Glamour, Mother Jones, and The Boston Globe among other publications.

Iceland

Fiction by Jessica Shattuck April 24, 2019
The whole right side of Nancy’s body, the side closest the ledge, prickled with horror and disgust. The wind lifted and tugged at her hair, and her head echoed with her own ineffective shouts. She stood frozen by the ledge that the baby bird had just tumbled off.