The Forgetters

Oisín Mahoney is an American Army vet in his 70s who is asked to lead a group of young grand-nieces and grand-nephews on a walk through the hills of California’s Central Coast. Walking toward a setting sun, their destination is a place called The...

In this long short story, or short novella, Dave Eggers gives us an unforgettable duo, Helen and Peter Mahoney, a homebody niece and her adventurous, almost-British uncle. Helen designs invitations to parties and galas to which she is not welcome,...

Cole lives alone, has no pets, and has grown accustomed to a homelife of profound quiet (not to say tedium). When Daphne and her two young children move into the apartment next door, the noise is extraordinary—impossible to believe, really—and Cole...

Lionel Vratimos is a beat reporter covering the San Francisco Giants — an enviable job if not for the soggy fries, and the so-so weather, and the Giants’ losing record, and the shoe Lionel paid a Romanian shoemaker re-sole but which now squeaks with...

Oisín Mahoney, in his early seventies, lives off the grid in rural Idaho, at the base of a steep pine-covered mountain. In his tilted cabin, he has no room for Calla and Torin, his grand-niece and grand-nephew, two seemingly sullen California...

Aurora Mahoney runs one of three whale-watching businesses on the Monterey coast. It’s a life of great beauty, wonder, and camaraderie, but after one of her fellow captains retires, a new, and decidedly different, sort of captain takes his...

A man named Rub, not too young and not too old, lives in a sinking skyscraper and works for a personal-injury lawyer who’s slowly losing his mind. Every day Rub stares out at the tiny boats on the San Francisco Bay, wanting to be there and not filing...

The far-flung Mahoneys, who first arrived in California by shipwreck, are having a family reunion on their Central Coast fruit ranch—and it’s already more than anyone wanted. There’s one thing that might unite the family’s many generations, and...