Pond (book)

Pond is a collection of 20 short stories written by Claire-Louise Bennett, originally published by The Stinging Fly Press in Ireland on 10 May 2015 (ISBN 0-3995-7590-1). The stories are written from the perspective of an unnamed woman who lives a solitary existence on the outskirts of a small coastal village.

It focuses on the details of her daily experience, from the best way to eat porridge to an encounter with a cow to the ending of an affair. The shortest story in Pond runs to only a couple of sentences.

Reception
Pond was well received in both the UK and the US, and was featured in both The New Yorker and The New York Times in 2016.