I Felt My Life With Both My Hands

I Felt My Life With Both My Hands

by Jessica Treadway

Released April 14, 2026

In her newest collection of short fiction, Jessica Treadway chronicles the lives of ordinary women as they navigate motherhood and childlessness; friend and partner relationships; careers and job loss; crises of identity and self-worth; the quest for spirituality; guilt and sacrifice; illness and grief. These stories affirm the significance of our most inner selves, and the possibility of grace in human connection.

Jessica Treadway is the award-winning author of four novels and three other story collections: Absent Without Leave, Infinite Dimensions, and Please Come Back to Me, which received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She teaches at Emerson College and lives outside Boston.