Winner of the Bard Fiction Prize and a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut fiction, the Young Lions Fiction Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award for a single-author collectionJoyce Carol Oates calls Clare Beams wickedly sharp-eyed, wholly unpredictable . . . a female / feminist voice for the twenty-first century."The literary, historic, and fantastic collide in these wise and exquisitely unsettling stories. From bewildering assemblies in school auditoriums to the murky waters of a Depression-era health resort, Beams'apos;s landscapes are tinged with otherworldliness, and her characters'apos; desires stretch the limits of reality. Ingenues at a boarding school bind themselves to their headmaster'apos;s vision of perfection; a nineteenth-century landscape architect embarks on his first major project, but finds the terrain of class and power intractable; a bride glimpses her husband'apos;s past when she wears his World War II parachute as a gown; and a teacher comes undone in front of her astonished fifth graders. As they capture the strangeness of being human, the stories in We Show What We Have Learnedreveal Clare Beams'apos;s rare and capacious imagination-and yet they are grounded in emotional complexity, illuminating the ways we attempt to transform ourselves, our surroundings, and each other." | We Show What We Have Learned & Other Stories by Clare Beams, Paperback | Indigo Chapters