The Way
A postapocalyptic road trip and a quest for redemption
Coming December 3 from Spiegel & Grau
Welcome!
Cary Groner is an author and teacher based in the San Francisco Bay area. His new novel, The Way, will be published by Spiegel & Grau in December 2024.
Cary’s debut novel, Exiles, was published by Spiegel & Grau / Random House in 2011, and was called one of the best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune. His short stories have won numerous awards and appeared in in venues that include Glimmer Train, American Fiction, Mississippi Review, Salamander, Sycamore Review, and Southern California Review. For more information about Cary’s fiction see the “Works” page.
Cary's stage plays have been produced at Carnegie Mellon University and at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre and Eureka Theatre. As a medical journalist, he has published more than two hundred articles in a variety of professional journals, consumer magazines, annual reports, and websites.
Novel: Exiles
In Exiles, American cardiologist Peter Scanlon takes his 17-year-old daughter, Alex, to Nepal in order to work in a free health clinic. At its heart, the book is a meditation on loss, forgiveness, and healing in our lives.
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Get in Touch
Find out how to get in touch with Cary's publishers in the United States and internationally. You'll also find a form here that you can fill out if you'd like Cary to virtually attend a gathering of your book club.
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Teaching
Cary has taught fiction writing at the University of Arizona, the Writing Salon in Berkeley, CA, and at UCLA online. His students have been accepted into MFA programs at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the Michener Center, Vanderbilt, and Johns Hopkins, among others.
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