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Release Date: September 1, 2026
Size: 6x9
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-57869-230-9
eBook ISBN: 978-1-57869-237-8
Library of Congress Control Number: 2026940057
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SYNOPSIS
In dazzling prose, No One Will Ever Hear You’s twenty-three short stories show the plights of women discovering their own strength and control. A mother is determined to save her family from imminent nuclear disaster in a world controlled by despots. A woman is repeatedly reborn only to face immense loss over and over, intent on changing her fate. A breast cancer survivor reclaims control over her body. A writer for a satirical news show confronts homophobia while mourning a breakup. Another mother struggles to save her daughter from a deadly mental illness while battling her own traumatic past. Again and again, women discover what they are capable of; what they can endure.
This collection deftly explores themes of loss and grief amidst an increasingly fraught world through a singular voice. The title story, "No One Will Ever Hear You," won the 2019 Noir Nation Golden Fedora Fiction Prize; other stories have been nominated for a Pushcart.
Praise
“Erika Nichols-Frazer has written a dazzling collection of short stories that are sharp and cut deep. Her language is so lyrical and yet the stories of loss and love and delusion are heartbreaking in the best possible way. This is a writer who takes her time, who crafts every line even as she takes her reader into the depths, to the places where we all live.”
—Mary Morris, author of The Red House
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“In Erika Nichols-Frazer’s beautifully crafted debut collection, No One Will Ever Hear You, we meet a host of characters who are struggling with ex-lovers, parents, current spouses, kids, coworkers, and their own bodies. Nichols-Frazer chooses an array of settings to tell her characters’ stories, and those settings play a critically important role throughout. The unifying aspects of this impressive collection are her propulsive prose and pitch-perfect dialogue. A wonderful and memorable fiction debut with relatable characters whose stories possess an enviable staying power.”
—Keith Pilapil Lesmeister, author of We Could’ve Been Happy Here
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“The characters at the center of these bracing stories tell their truths no matter how overwhelming the situations they face, and with a haunting beauty sometimes more suggestive of poetry than prose. Details tell all in these stories where spilt wine takes on layers of meaning and you can smell and hear and see the worlds in which these people inhabit. Erika Nichols-Frazer has given us people to care deeply about, which is no small gift in our brutal world.”
—Ken Harvey, author of The Book of Casey Adair
Meet the author
Erika Nichols-Frazer is the author of the memoir Feed Me: A Story of Food, Love and Mental Illness and the poetry collections Staring Too Closely and Can you hear her, the moon? She lives in Vermont with her family.