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The state we're in : Maine stories / Ann Beattie.

by Beattie, Ann.

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Scribner, c2015.

Maine -- Fiction.

Alternate title:

State we are in

1st Scribner hardcover ed.

x, 206 p. ; 22 cm.

What magical realism would be -- Fledgling -- Aunt Sophie Renaldo Brown -- Adirondack chairs -- Yancey -- Silent prayer -- Endless rain into a paper cup -- Duff's done enough -- Elvis is ahead of us -- Major Maybe -- Road movie -- Little Hutchinsons -- Stroke -- Missed calls -- Repurposed barn.

This is about more than geographical location of Maine, and certainly is not a picture postcard of the coastal state. Some characters have arrived by accident, others are trying to get out. The collection opens, closes, and is interlaced with stories that focus on Jocelyn, a wryly disaffected teenager living with her aunt and uncle while attending summer school. As in life, the narratives of other characters interrupt Jocelyn's, sometimes challenging, sometimes embellishing her view.

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