Ramona Ausubel is the author of Awayland, publishing March 6 from Riverhead, and the novels Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty and No One Is Here Except All of Us, winner of the PEN Center USA Fiction Award and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. She is also the author of the story collection A Guide to Being Born, and has been published in The New Yorker, One Story, The Paris Review Daily, and Best American Fantasy.
A chef ditches a simulated Martian colony in Hawaii to try to conceive a child with her ex in this excerpt from Ramona Ausubel's short story collection Awayland.