“Touching and funny” short fiction about family, estrangement, and
dislocation from the award-winning author of A Lie Someone Told You
About Yourself (Elizabeth McCracken, author of Bowlaway).
Featuring “stories about the touchy relationships between parents
and children and the necessary pain of letting go—both for parents
with children who are becoming adults and for adults whose parents are
aging,” this collection showcases the talent, wit, and wisdom that
have earned the author of The Fortunes critical acclaim and multiple
literary prizes (Library Journal). “With his variety of settings
comes a variety of voices: the narrator of ‘Brave Girl,’ trying to
help her father navigate the aftermath of divorce; a mathematician in
‘Small World,’ revisiting the scenes of his Irish-Catholic boyhood
and his first love; a retired encyclopedia salesman who can’t stop
selling himself in ‘Sales’; a junkie trying to regain custody of
her son in ‘Everything You Can Remember in 30 Seconds Is Yours to
Keep.’ Ho manages to convey all his characters’ predicaments with
finesse, and his emotional and geographical range are equally wide.”
—Booklist “I read Equal Love with great admiration.”
—Penelope Fitzgerald, author of The Bookshop
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780547630052
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Mariner Books / Open Road Integrated Media
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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