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A Guide to Being Born: Stories

By Ramona Ausubel

A Guide to Being Born: Stories Essays & Short Stories

A Guide to Being Born: Stories

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Reminiscent of Aimee Bender and Karen Russell, from the author of the new collection, Awayland-an enthralling book of stories that uses the world of the imagination to explore the heart of the human condition. Major literary talent Ramona Ausubel, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, combines the otherworldly wisdom of her much-loved debut novel, No One Is Here Except All of Us, with the precision of the short-story form. A Guide to Being Born is organized around the stages of life-love, conception, gestation, birth-and the transformations that happen as people experience deeply altering life events, falling in love, becoming parents, looking toward the end of life. In each of these eleven stories Ausubel's stunning imagination and humor are moving, entertaining, and provocative, leading readers to see the familiar world in a new way. In "Atria" a pregnant teenager believes she will give birth to any number of strange animals rather than a human baby; in "Catch and Release" a girl discovers the ghost of a Civil War hero living in the woods behind her house; and in "Tributaries" people grow a new arm each time they fall in love. Funny, surprising, and delightfully strange-all the stories have a strong emotional core; Ausubel's primary concern is always love, in all its manifestations.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
2014-05-06
Publication Date:
2014-05-06
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1594632685
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
187 g
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