Ann Packer

• Nov-2025
• / General Fiction

“Profound and moving and real.” -- Andrew Sean Greer“Some Bright Nowhere is a novel that draws you in deeply and holds you there. Wonderful.” -- Meg WolitzerThe bestselling, beloved author returns with her first novel in over a decade, an int...

• May-2015
• / Literary

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   Virginia, a copywriter at an ad agency, looks around her office one day and realizes that everyone -- well, nearly everyone -- is pregnant.  Can she be happy for them?  “Babies,�...

• Apr-2015
• / Literary

From the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of The Dive From Clausen’s Pier, a sweeping, masterful new novel that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family, over the course of five...

• Apr-2011
• / General Fiction

A wife struggles to make sense of her husband's sudden disappearance. A mother mourns her teenage son through the music collection he left behind. A woman shepherds her estranged parents through her brother's wedding and reflects on the year her fami...

• Sep-2007
• / General Fiction

Ann Packer's debut novel, The Dive from Clausen's Pier, was a nationwide best seller that established her as one of our most gifted chroniclers of the interior lives of women. Now, in her long-awaited second novel, she takes us on a journey into a li...

• Jan-2003
• / General Fiction

With humor, wisdom and tenderness, Ann Packer offers ten short stories about women and men--wives and husbands, sisters and brothers, daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, friends, and lovers--who discover that life's greatest surprises may be found in ...

• Apr-2002
• / General Fiction

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strength or weakness to walk away from someone in need? These questions lie at the heart of Ann Packer’s intimate and emotionally thrilling novel.“Packer knows just ho...