β Scribed by Mary-Beth Hughes
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Best-selling author Mary-Beth Hughes delivers a seductive, deeply human, and sophisticated collection about the universal need to be loved, and the complicated imperfections that jeopardize the ties that bind us.
The stories in Double Happiness are extraordinary portrayals of the ordinariness of life. By pinpointing those moments of discord when personal needs and morality clash with circumstances beyond our control, Hughes challenges our concepts of responsibility, trust, resilience, and betrayal. In βPelican Song,β a thirty-year-old modern dancer who moonlights as a movieβticket taker visits her parentβs picturesque home to discover that her stepfather has begun mistreating her too-accommodating mother; βHorseβ follows maladjusted honeymooners in Atlantic City whose romantic weekend is saved from emotional catastrophe by a horse that refuses to dive from its pedestal into the ocean; and a holiday in New York City turns from shopping...
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