Wild Child is my ninth collection of short stories, published by Viking in January of 2010. It contains fourteen new stories, including the novella-length title piece. The stories are:

"Balto"
"La Conchita"
"Question 62"
"Sin Dolor"
"Bulletproof"
"Hands On"
"The Lie"
"The Unlucky Mother of Aquiles Maldonado"
"Admiral"
"Ash Monday"
"Thirteen Hundred Rats"
"Anacapa"
"Three Quarters of the Way to Hell"
"Wild Child"

The epigraph is from Henry David Thoreau's "Walking": In wildness is the preservation of the world.

All the stories have appeared previously in periodicals: Best Life: "Bulletproof"; Harper's: "Question 62" and "Admiral"; The Kenyon Review: "Hands On"; McSweeney's:"Wild Child"; The New Yorker:"La Conchita"; "Sin Dolor"; "The Lie"; "Thirteen Hundred Rats" and "Ash Monday"; The Paris Review: "Balto"; Playboy: "The Unlucky Mother of Aquiles Maldonado" and "Three Quarters of the Way to Hell"; and A Public Space: "Anacapa."
"Balto" also appeared in The Best American Stories, 2007, edited by Stephen King (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007), and "Admiral" in The Best American Stories, 2008, edited by Salman Rushdie (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008).