โ Annie Bellet
๐ Fiction
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2014
๐ English
โ 121 KB
๐ 1 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Rutting Season: Stories
โ Scribed by Mandeliene Smith
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 116 KB
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
An intimate, sparkling collection of stories by a debut writer about girls behaving badly and families on the brink of collapse.
In these lucid, sharply observant stories, Mandeliene Smith traces the lives of men and women in moments of crisis: a woman whose husband has just died, a social worker struggling to escape his own past, a girl caught in a standoff between her mother's boyfriend and the police. A lively and insightful collection, Rutting Season is dark, humorous, and moving, filled with complex characters who immediately demand our interest and attention.
In "What it Takes," a teenage girl navigates race and class as the school's pot dealer. "The Someday Cat" follows a small girl terrified of being given away by her neglectful mother. "Three Views of a Pond" is a meditation on the healing time brings for a college student considering suicide. And in "Animals," a child wrestles with the contradictions inherent in her family's relationship with the...
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