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Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories
DEBORAH EISENBERG - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form.At times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as solemn and mysterious as a pond at midnight, Deborah Eisenberg's stories gently compel... |
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction"[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange." -- Roxane Gay"In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women's memories and hunger and desire.... |
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An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
Helene Tursten - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover
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Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing... |
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Mad Country
Samrat Upadhyay - Soho Press
Format: Paperback
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Samrat Upadhyay's new collection vibrates at the edges of intersecting cultures. Journalists in Kathmandu are targeted by the government. A Nepali man studying in America drops out of school and finds himself a part of the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. A white American woman moves to Nepal... |
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The Noodle Maker
Ma Jian
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From Mi Jian, the highly acclaimed Chinese dissident, comes a satirical novel about the absurdities of life in a post-Tiananmen China.Two men meet for dinner each week. Over the course of one of these drunken evenings, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had |
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Krik? Krak!
Edwidge Danticat - Soho Press
Format: Paperback
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Edwidge Danticat's only short story collection. Gorgeous 10th anniversary edition - complete with a new story!Arriving one year after the Haitian-American's first novel (Breath, Eyes, Memory) alerted critics to her compelling voice, these 10 stories, some of which have appeared... |
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A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
Lucia Berlin - Farrar
Format: Print book
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One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015"I have always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream, sooner or later, and will become exactly as well-known as they should be-their work talked about, quoted, taught, performed,... |
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