We are thrilled to celebrate the paperback launch of Clare Beams’s “astoundingly original” (NYT) work of historical fiction–with the author herself! O, The Oprah Magazine calls THE ILLNESS LESSON “a meticulously crafted suspense tale” while the Washington Post hails it as “unusual and transporting…Alcott meets Shirley Jackson, with a splash of Margaret Atwood.” Count us wayyy in!

Clare’s first book, WE SHOW WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED, a collection of short stories, is *also* a staff favorite.

Preorder THE ILLNESS LESSON here and email us at hello@thankyoubookshop.com for Zoom invite.

CLARE BEAMS is the author of the story collection We Show What We Have Learned, which won the Bard Prize and was a Kirkus Best Debut of 2016, as well as a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. With her husband and two daughters, she lives in Pittsburgh, where she teaches creative writing, most recently at Carnegie Mellon University and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.