FOREVER EGG

Forever Egg is a debut short story collection that explores questions of love, identity, and shame. Across a dozen linked stories, Tierney Oberhammer skillfully brings readers into the hearts and deeply-held fears of her characters, while unfolding a bigger picture about the experiences that unify people across space and time.

A young boy gets caught up in his parents’ quiet, working-class desperation during a family beach trip in 1980. Decades later, a school teacher finds unexpected romance while healing from a long-awaited rhinoplasty. A volcanic eruption on a Caribbean island in 2018 forces a culinary prodigy to confront a choice that may wound the person she loves most. A struggling mother in New York then makes a dangerous attempt to silence her daughter’s memories of a past life. Centuries later, in 2400, descendants protect a precious family heirloom—one that began as a kitchen-counter science experiment—as humanity leaves Earth.

With wry humor and clear-eyed tenderness, Forever Egg asks the question: what do we owe the people we love and how do our choices reverberate across time?