**"Lepionka is setting a high standard for crime fiction." --_Booklist_ (starred review) on _What You Want to See_** ** _The Stories You Tell_ is ****Shamus Award-winning and****Anthony****and****Macavity Award-nominated author Kristen Lepionka's heart-pounding third novel that will keep readers on
Mothers, tell your daughters: stories
โ Scribed by Bonnie Jo Campbell
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 153 KB
- Edition
- Norton paperback
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0393353265
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โฆ Synopsis
From the author of National Book Award finalist American Salvage comes a dazzling and suspenseful new story collection.
Named by the Guardian as one of our top ten writers of rural noir, Bonnie Jo Campbell is a keen observer of life and trouble in rural America, and her working-class protagonists can be at once vulnerable, wise, cruel, and funny. The strong but flawed women of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters must negotiate a sexually charged atmosphere as they love, honor, and betray one another against the backdrop of all the men in their world. Such richly fraught mother-daughter relationships can be lifelines, anchors, or they can sink a woman like a stone.
In "My Dog Roscoe," a new bride becomes obsessed with the notion that her dead ex-boyfriend has returned to her in the form of a mongrel. In "Blood Work, 1999," a phlebotomist's desire to give away everything to the needy awakens her own sensuality. In "Home to Die," an abused woman takes revenge on...
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