Likes

✍ Scribed by Recorded Books, Inc.;Bynum, Sarah Shun-lien

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 137 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0374722307

✦ Synopsis

A Buzz Book of Fall at Publishers Lunch * A WIRED Ultimate Summer Reading pick
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National Book Award finalist Sarah Shun-lien Bynum's highly anticipated return weaves together like and unlike, mythic and modern**
In nine stories that range from the real to the unreal, strange to familiar, funny to frightening, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum reminds us why her wildly original debut, Madeleine Is Sleeping , and her masterful Ms. Hempel Chronicles have become contemporary classics--celebrated and beloved.
In a nimble dance of lightness and gravity, Likes explores the full range and contradictions of our contemporary moment. Through unexpected visitors, Waldorf school fairs, aging indie-film stars, the struggle to gain a foothold in the capitalist shell-game of work, the Instagram posts of a twelve-year-old--these stories of friendship and parenthood, celebrity and obsession, race and class and the passage of time,...

✦ Subjects

Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction