Garth Greenwell

Garth Greenwell is the author of Mitko, which won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction Award and a Lambda Award. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, he holds graduate degrees from Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Arts Fellow. His short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, A Public Space, VICE, and StoryQuarterly. What Belongs to You is his first novel.

Quotes

Zeehas quoted16 days ago
Even when she found a romantic prospect, why did it feel like her intrigues were always a few inches off the mark?
Zeehas quoted16 days ago
Because she wants to love him, she doesn’t tell him.

Because to tell him the truth would be to endanger the possibility of being loved by him, and all she wants is to be loved totally, without reason or question or sacrifice.
Zeehas quoted16 days ago
He is still nervous. She’s too young to rent a car; that’s why he had to book it. He doesn’t like knowing this about her; it makes him feel uneasy, like a predator. But there’s no way that he could unknow it, her youth, her porousness—there’s no way to go back to the time before they met.
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