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Imaginary museums: stories

✍ Scribed by Nicolette Polek

Book ID: 100214229
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Year: 2019;2020
Tongue: English
Weight: 88 KB
Edition: First Soft Skull edition
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1593765878

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✦ Synopsis

In this collection of compact fictions, Nicolette Polek transports us to a gently unsettling realm inhabited by disheveled landlords, a fugitive bride, a seamstress who forgets what people look like, and two rival falconers from neighboring towns. They find themselves in bathhouses, sports bars, grocery stores, and forests in search of exits, pink tennis balls, licorice, and independence. Yet all of her beautifully strange characters are possessed by a familiar and human longing for connection: to their homes, families, God, and themselves.

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