A New Day
β Scribed by Sue Mell
- Book ID
- 115316490
- Publisher
- She Writes Press
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 627 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781647427436
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
For fans of Lily King's Five Tuesdays in Winter , a contemporary short story collection that explores the depths of everyday humanity and the universal yearning for new beginnings.
Linked by their personal and professional relationships, the characters in these thirteen stories--all set between 1982 and 2012--struggle to achieve happiness and success. A coke-fueled night with a photographer costs a young woman her job in the display department of Bloomingdale's, but holds a hidden promise. A sculptor tries to resurrect his relationship with an old flame on the same day her best friend is undergoing a bone marrow transplant. An aspiring actress drifts from house-sit to house-sit until an armed robbery at the restaurant where she works makes her question a lifelong pattern of impermanence.
Moody, elegiac, and full of longing, with ricocheting themes of desire and loss, A New Day 's stories are steeped in the highs and lows inherent in the...
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