'A riotous, dazzling debut' DEESHA PHILYAW

'Reading Shannon Sanders makes me want to visit home' TONY TULATHIMUTTE

The heartfelt celebration of family and the messy beauty of belonging for fans of Blue Sisters and Small Worlds

One family. Thirteen stories.

Meet the sisters - Cassandra, Fay, Lela, and Suzette - and their circle of relatives, friends and lovers. A jostling clan of dropouts and overachievers, bickering siblings and delightfully bossy aunties.

Journeying from a smoky jazz bar to a glittering campus soirée, this is a family portrait that refuses to sit still and a joyful, multigenerational celebration of belonging.

Further praise for Company...

'There are undeniable shades of Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other. . . Sanders has fun playing with her characters as alignments and allegiances shift' Marie Claire

'A deftly woven tapestry that scrupulously depicts familial ties and estrangement' New York Times

'Offers sharp and original insight into the intimate politics of race and class' Danielle Evans, author of The Office of Historical Corrections

A brilliant debut with each incisive chapter offering a new window into the beguiling Collins family. This delighted me -- Ann Napolitano, author of The New York Bestseller Hello Beautiful
There are undeniable shades of Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other in this debut, which follows the lives of the extended family and friends of four sisters across several decades in and around Washington DC. . . Sanders has fun playing with her characters as alignments and allegiances shift and change with the perspectives, points of view and timeframes of each story's narrator * Marie Claire, The Best New Books of 2024 *
The Collins family and the many folks in their orbit are endlessly fascinating, frustrating, and fun to meet on the page. Company is a riotous, dazzling debut that is as profound as it is entertaining * Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies *
A deftly woven tapestry that scrupulously depicts familial ties and estrangement, richly told with a nuance that allows each character dignity and grace * New York Times *
Introduces an unforgettable cast of characters who remind us that family can be both wound and salve. Sanders offers sharp and original insight into the intimate politics of race and class and the impossible rules we've inherited to navigate them. This is a brilliant and immaculate debut -- Danielle Evans, author of The Office of Historical Corrections
The relatives meet, eat, party and bubble with resentment... enjoyable * Grazia *
If love is a many-splendored thing, family love is a little more complex. The extended clan Shannon Sanders conjures in Company is fully alive-and very funny!-recognizable but wholly new, and to read their stories is to get the gift you don't always get from your own family: the feeling of being seen -- Will Allison, author of Long Drive Home
Assured and incisive, this collection hums with the dark comedy of striving and speaks the inconvenient necessity of affiliation as it unravels the complications of belonging. This clear-eyed debut brims human -- Tracy O'Neill, author of The Quotients
The prose is subtle and lean... Company shows the frayed edges of friendship and family, and Sanders extracts comedy from the formidable situations that erupt in people's lives * Washington Post *
Each story feels like a completely different vision of the same majestically sprawling family, as these neurotic high achievers struggle to balance the duties of kinship, social appearances, and honesty to their true selves. Reading Shannon Sanders makes me want to visit home -- Tony Tulathimutte, author of Private Citizens

Shannon Sanders lives and works near Washington, DC. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly, Joyland and Electric Literature and was a 2020 winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Her debut, Company, won the 2023 Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.