**********βA debut story collection of the rarest kind ... you wish that every single entry could be an entire novel."Β β*Entertainment Weekly***** Fresh, intimate stories of womenβs lives from an extraordinary new literary voice, laying bare the unexpected beauty and irony in contemporary life*
Objects of Desire : Stories
β Scribed by Clare Sestanovich
- Book ID
- 112026069
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 277 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780593318102
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β¦ Synopsis
****" A debut story collection of the rarest kind ... you wish that every single entry could be an entire novel." --Entertainment Weekly
**
Fresh, intimate stories of women 's lives from an extraordinary new literary voice, laying bare the unexpected beauty and irony in contemporary life
A Most Anticipated Book by The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Lit Hub, Vulture, Esquire, Refinery29, and _The Millions_**
A college freshman, traveling home, strikesup an odd, ephemeral friendship with the couple next to her on the plane. A mother prepares for her son's wedding, her own life unraveling as his comes together. A long-lost stepbrother's visit to New York prompts a family's reckoning with its old taboos. A wife considers the secrets her marriage once contained. An office worker, exhausted by the ambitions of the men around her, emerges into a gridlocked city one...
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Named a 'Most Anticipated Book of 2021' by *Lit Hub* and *The Millions* 'Astonishing β one of the best story collections I've read in a long time . . . Clare Sestanovich is stylish and skilled, an astute chronicler of contemporary life' Brandon Taylor, Booker-shortlisted author of *Real Life*