A Story That Happens

• Prize
  Honorable Mention in Other books / Books
• Lead
  Anna Jordan
• Client
  Dalkey Archive Press

Book cover. Drawing on O’Brien’s experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and on his ongoing collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in "A Story that Happens" offer insights into what stories are for and the reasons why we tell them. The cover design is a photograph of a sheet of paper with one single cut slicing through the title, which creates a visual gesture toward trauma. The resulting image is a meditation on how that trauma affects the stories we tell.

Anna Jordan designs book covers and other graphic objects from her studio in Rochester, New York, USA. Her award-winning artwork explores the intersection of typography and materials.