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| Title Statement | Verge: stories / Lidia Yuknavitch. |
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| Author | Yuknavitch, Lidia |
| Publication | New York: Riverhead Books,2020. |
| Extent of Item | 194 pages ; |
| ISBN | 0525534873 9780525534877 |
| Other Number | 3712406 |
| General Notes | Short stories. |
| Contents | The pull -- The organ runner -- Street walker -- The garden of earthly delights -- A woman object (exploding) -- Cosmos -- Second language -- A woman signifying -- The eleventh commandment -- Drive through -- Cusp -- A woman refusing -- Shooting -- A woman apologizing -- Mechanics -- Second coming -- Beatings -- A woman going out -- How to lose an I -- Two girls. |
| Summary | The landscape of Verge is peopled with characters who are innocent and imperfect, wise and endangered: an eight-year-old black-market medical courier, a restless lover haunted by memories of his mother, a teenage girl gazing out her attic window at a nearby prison, all of them wounded but grasping toward transcendence. Clear-eyed yet inspiring, Verge challenges us with moments of uncomfortable truth, even as it urges us to place our faith not in the flimsy guardrails of society but in the memories held-- and told-- by our own individual bodies. |
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| By Topic | Marginality, Social--Fiction |
