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Back Talk: Stories

✍ Scribed by Lazarin, Danielle

Book ID
109529593
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2018
Tongue
en-US
Weight
614 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

From an award-winning debut writer, a beautiful and unapologetic collection of stories about women's unexpressed desires and needs, and the unexpected ways they resurface

"Deceptively quiet but packs a powerful punch . . . The best collection I've read in years, from a phenomenal new talent." β€”Celeste Ng

"Thank God, a collection of stories about women who don't hate themselves, don't hate other women, don't hate their bodies, don't hate their husbands, or even their ex-husbands . . . women who are simply, like me, trying to figure out what it means to be alive, to be in love, to be daughters, parents, siblings, wives, citizens, human beings." β€”Eileen Pollack

In "Floor Plans," a woman at the end of her marriage tests her power when she inadvertently befriends the neighbor trying to buy her apartment. In "Appetite," a sixteen-year old grieving her mother's death experiences first love and questions how much more...

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