Eric Puchner Books In Order

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Eric Puchner is a published author known for his novels Model Home and Dream State as well as his collections of short stories, Last Day on Earth and Music Through the Floor.

His novel Model Home was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. It also won a California Book Award and was second place for a Barnes & Noble Discover Award. It also made the longlist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His short story collection Music Through the Floor was a finalist for the Young Lions Award from the New York Public Library.

Eric’s stories and personal essays have been featured in publications such as Granta, GQ, Chicago Tribune, Zoetrope: All Story, The Sun, Glimmer Train, Best New American Voices, McSweeney’s, Tin House, and The Best American Short Stories 2012 and 2017. Eric also received an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

He has been an associate professor at John Hopkins University and an assistant professor of literature at Claremont McKenna College. He is married to his wife the novelist Katharine Noel and they have two children together. He has lived with them in Baltimore and Los Angeles. He has been a recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, a Pushcart Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant.

Model Home is a 2010 fictional novel from Eric Puchner. If you have been looking for a unique book that you have not read before, then check this story out!

Warren Ziller decided to pack up and move his family to southern California looking for a charmed life. To all appearances, he discovered a gated community that was located not far from the beach that was a haven among the affluent splendor of the eighties.

He has his own vision for living the American dream, but he has no idea that his pursuit of the dream is going to be interrupted. Warren has lost all of their savings on a bad investment in real estate. He hides the truth of the matter from his wife Camille, who notices his change of demeanor but mistakenly interprets it as a sign that he is having an affair.

Meanwhile, their children have become distant. Dustin, Lyle and Jonas are all too preoccupied with their own rebellions and betrayals, too involved in their own lives to pay much attention or notice the distress that their parents are going through.

When tragedy hits, the Zillers have no other choice but to relocate to the abandoned housing development located in the desert. In this new home, each member of the family will ultimately have to deal with what has brought them there, who is to blame, and whether they will be able to come up with the forgiveness that is necessary in order to keep the family together.

Full of insights into the way that modern life can be and with a focus on the everyday absurdities that life can bring, Eric brings a funny, heart-breaking, and original picture of an American family to life in this engaging first fictional novel. Grab a copy of Model Home to experience all of this debut in its glory for yourself!

Dream State is a 2025 novel from Eric Puchner. If you read the first book that he came out with and enjoyed it or are just looking for something new and interesting to read, check this story out for yourself!

Cece is a young woman who his in love. She has come early to her future in-law’s lake house in Montana so that she can complete planning her wedding to Charlie. Charlie is a doctor who has a wonderful life ahead of him.

Charlie has asked his best friend from college Garrett to officiate the ceremony. This is even though Cece could not picture anyone who was less suited to this task, since he’s an airport baggage handler who is also haunted by a tragedy from his shared past with Charlie.

As Cece decides to spend more time with Garrett, she starts to see a gruffness lower to a softness that was not there before, and she is becoming ever more uncertain about the future. But once he meets Cece, Garrett becomes even more human, and wonders what that means.

When a contagious stomach flu puts the wedding at risk, Charlie and Garrett find that their friendship is put to the test. Cece now has to pick between the life that she has been dreaming of, planning for, and working towards, and a life that she has never imagined before.

There are a lot of repercussions to that summer, and the effects will ripple onto not only the three friends that have been caught up in it but also their children, who are doing their best to try and escape the same story of their parents.

Taking place over the course of fifty years and set in a rapidly warming Montana, this novel is all about what it can mean to tolerate the mistakes of the past, our own and the ones that we have inherited. With precision, heart and humor, Dream State is a novel from Eric Puchner that you cannot miss!