THE MAN WITH EIGHT PAIRS OF LEGS (Sarabande Books, 2022), winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction, is a collection of eight short stories. At its core, the book is about body-memory, the way we hold our pasts on our skin, visibly – bruises, scars, tracks, tattoos – and invisibly, over generations. Three of the eight stories focus on women's bodies, and the violation of women's bodies; in a fourth, "Triptych," we go back to the early 80s and the AIDS epidemic in a story about an artist/single mother and her dying neighbor; in a fifth, "Tasmanians," an Armenian-American woman tries to separate from the suffering she has inherited from her father and grandmother as well as a slew of relatives she has never known.

About this latter story, author Anthony Doerr wrote: "Tasmanians, shows better than any story I’ve read in a long time how genocide can ripple through time and haunt generations who did not live through it." About "Triptych," he wrote: "What a generous, complicated and big-hearted story. It is a story that means something, that increases empathy in the world…innovative and beautifully written…the writing is lovely and strange in all the right ways."