Status Updates From Denizyolu

Interestingly, given the way this is marketed it's a collection of short stories about people in a sleepy seaside village; there's no fantasy or sci-fi in sight. Which, to be clear, is absolutely fine by me but I wasn't expecting it given all the allusions to Hugo awards on the cover.
Le Guin is one of those writers I need to read the complete works of. Gorgeous.

She knew then that that image had been there all along, all week, but it was what she had seen listening to Barbara’s long, loud, widely spaced last breaths, and that now it was the image of her self, the shape she was in her soul.