Onlookers: Stories It is the story of

It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia

Ten years before his death in 2008

with uncanny ease and insight

Over a century later

Onlookers: Stories It is the story of* "Supple, superb." The Boston Globe * "A deft mash of lonesomeness and wit." Chicago Tribune * "Her best in more than two decades." The New York Times * Award winning short story writer Ann Beattie returns with a "sophisticated, idiosyncratic, and witty" (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) collection of linked stories set in Charlottesville, Virginia, in a moment of unrest. Onlookers is collection of extraordinary stories about people living in the same