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A woman and man, parted a quarter of a century, reunite in a bar in New Orleans as the St Patrick's Day parade goes by. A divorced suburban dad helps his daughter pick out a card for her friend who's moving away. A group of friends in late middle age, all once promising, reunite for dinner when one of their number loses her husband, but the gathering splinters when bitter revelations about their shared past emerge. Two teenage boys sit in a drive-in,...
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"A debut, interlinked collection of stories exploring the primal nature of women's grief -- offering insight into the profound experience of loss and the absurd ways in which we seek control in an unruly world."--
"In these unconventional stories, Erin Slaughter shatters the stereotype of the sorrowful woman in distress, queering the domestic and honoring the feral in all of us. Set across oft-overlooked towns in the American South, grieving women...
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"In her first story collection, Jarrar employs a particular, rather than rhetorical approach to race and gender. Thus we have "How Can I Be of Use to You," with its complicated relationship between a distinguished Egyptian feminist and her young intern, demonstrating that gender politics are never straightforward, and both generations-old and new-take advantage of each other. There's also a healthy dose of magic surrealism, as in the wild and witty...
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