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I want to show you more : stories / by Jamie Quatro.

by Quatro, Jamie.

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Grove Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2013.

Adultery -- Fiction.

Georgia -- Fiction.

206 p. ; 22 cm.

Caught up -- Decomposition : a primer for promiscuous housewives -- Ladies and gentlemen of the pavement -- Here -- What friends talk about -- 1.7 to Tennessee -- The anointing -- Imperfections -- You look like Jesus -- Better to lose an eye -- Georgia the whole time -- Sinkhole -- Demolition -- Holy ground -- Relatives of God.

A collection of short fiction offers a disquieting portrait of infidelity, faith, and family.

"Sharp-edged and fearless, mixing white-hot yearning with daring humor, Jamie Quatro's debut collection is a beautiful and disquieting portrait of infidelity, faith, and family. The hypnotically intimate, urgent stories in "I Want to Show You More" are about lives stretched between spirituality and sexuality in the New American South. In narrative modes ranging from the traditional to the fabulist, these stories are interconnected explorations of God, illicit sex, raising children - and running. Jamie Quatro's stories confront us with dark theological complexities, fractured marriages, and mercurial temptations: a wife comes home with her husband to find her lover's corpse in their bed; a teenager attends a Bible Camp where he seduces a young cancer survivor with hopes of curing his own rare condition; marathon runners on a Civil War battlefield must carry phallic statues and are punished if they choose to unload their burdens; a girl's embarrassment over attending a pool party with her quadriplegic mother turns to fierce devotion under the pitying gaze of other guests; and a husband asks his wife to show him how she would make love to another man. This collection unleashes Quatro's exhilarating talent for exposing the quiet terrors of modern life with stunning and subversive energy.

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