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Lacey, Catherine, 1985-
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Self-realization -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
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Lacey, Catherine, 1985-
Self-realization -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
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Certain
American
states
:
stories
/ Catherine Lacey.
by
Lacey, Catherine, 1985-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Call #:
FICTION LAC
Subjects
Self-realization -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780374265892
0374265895
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
190 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Violations -- ur heck box --
Certain
American
States
-- Because You Have To -- Please Take -- The Healing Center -- Learning -- Touching People -- The Four Immeasurables and Twenty New Immeasurables -- Small Differences -- Family Physics -- The Grand Claremont Hotel.
Summary:
"In the twelve
stories
collected in
Certain
American
States
, Catherine Lacey, the award-winning author of the acclaimed novels Nobody Is Ever Missing and The Answers, picks apart the minutiae of the human condition with the skill of a surgeon, giving life to a collection of ordinary people seeking -- and failing to find -- the extraordinary in their lives. The characters in
Certain
American
States
are continually coming to terms with their place in the world before change inevitably returns. A woman leaves her dead husband's clothing on the street, only for it to reappear on the body of a stranger; a man reads his ex-wife's short story and neurotically contemplates whether it is about him; a young woman's attempt to deal with family tragedy is interrupted daily by a mute stranger showing her incoherent messages on his phone. These are
stories
of breakups, abandonment, and strained family ties; loneliness, happenstance, starting over, and the constant destruction of the self. Catherine Lacey's elegiac and inspired prose is at its full power in
Certain
American
States
, her first collection of short fiction, further establishing her as one of the singular literary voices of her generation." --Publisher.
Genre:
Short
stories
.
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