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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
For ten years, Denny's father has battled cancer. The drawn-out loss has forged Denny into a dazed, antisocial young woman. On the clock, she works as a lab tech, readying fruit flies for experimentation. In her spare time, only her parents, an aggressively kind best friend, and her blowhard imaginary pal Gene--who she knows isn't real--ornament her stale days in the DC suburbs. Now her father's cancer is back for a third time, and he's rejecting...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Claire Messud described Erin McGraw's last collection of stories as zat once laugh-out-loud funny and utterly serious, [exploring] life's profundity through its details.y This is even more true with McGraw's new collection, Joy. In these very short stories, narrators step out of themselves to explain their lives to us, sometimes defensively, sometimes regretfully, other times deceitfully. Voices include those of the impulsive first-time murderer,...
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