Thirty Girls

‘She saw the girls out of the corner of her eye, gathered now beneath a tree, and instinct told her not to look in their direction.’

From ‘Thirty Girls’ by Susan Minot in Granta 118: Exit Strategies. You can now buy the issue or subscribe and receive four issues a year of the best new writing.

Photo by Guillaume Bonn.

The New York Launch
7 February, 7 p.m., BookCourt, 163 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Granta editor John Freeman launches the new issue with Granta 118 contributors Judy Chicurel, Vanessa Manko, Claire Messud and Susan Minot.

Thirty Girls, The Interrogation and City Boy
9 February, 7 p.m., 192 BOOKS, 192 10th Avenue, New York, NY 10011

Judy Chicurel, Aleksandar Hemon, Vanessa Manko and Susan Minot explore the consequences of things beyond our control through readings from Granta 118 and conversation with Granta associate editor Patrick Ryan.