![]() Fatherless, she craves family and especially wants to spend time with the grandfather she barely knows. ![]() Mal's thirteen-year-old daughter, Joy, has never been to the place where Mal's life was shaped and is desperate to go. But going home is fraught with emotional baggage-memories, mysteries and secrets abound. It's been twenty years since she's been gone-running from the scandal that destroyed her parents' marriage, drove her and her two sisters apart, and crushed her relationship with her first love. ![]() One phone call is all it takes to lure real estate photographer Mallory Aldiss back to her family Rhode Island beach home. In A Week at the Shore, New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky explores how lives and relationships are forever changed when three sisters reunite at their family Rhode Island beach house. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void-yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant's safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. ![]() In "The Prospectors," two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In"Bog Girl", a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he's extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. Karen Russell's comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. Ranging from the absurd to the tenderhearted, the stories in I Am My Country illuminate the constant force amid one country’s history of rampant oppression and revolutionary progress: the impulse to survive.įrom the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell's extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. A poor cage-maker tries to use his ability to talk to birds to woo his childhood love just before the 1955 Istanbul pogrom. These characters are united by a desperate yearning to break free from the volatile realities they face: rising authoritarianism, cultural and political turmoil, and staggering violence. ![]() A smuggler risks his life to bring a young woman claiming to be pregnant via immaculate conception across the border with Syria. A garbage collector finds banned instruments-and later, musicians-in the trash and takes them home to form a clandestine orchestra in her attic. Spanning decades and landscapes, from the forests along the Black Sea to the streets of Istanbul, Kenan Orhan’s playful stories conjure dreamlike worlds-of talking animals, flying houses, and omniscient prayer-callers-to examine humanity’s unfaltering pursuit of hope in even the darkest circumstances.Ī determined florist trains a neighborhood stray dog to blow up a corrupt president. ![]()
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