In this exquisitely written and emotionally charged young adult debut, Jennifer Gilmore explores how sometimes the wounds you can't see are the most painful. Did you know your entire life can change in an instant? For sixteen-year-old Lizzie Stoller that moment is when she collapses out of the blu
Pretend we live here: stories
β Scribed by Hudson, Genevieve Katherine
- Publisher
- Future Tense Books
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 84 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Portland, Oregon
- ISBN
- 1892061821
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β¦ Synopsis
In her debut collection of stories, Pretend We Live Here, Genevieve Hudson explores the idea of home and what it means to find one: in the body, in the world, in other people. Her characters are seekers, whose actions are influenced by their slippery identities and by the strange landscapes that surround them. These stories hum with sexual tension, queerness, displacement, longing, humor, and dark nostalgia.
β¦ Subjects
Short stories, American -- 21st century
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