Wednesday's child : stories /
A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away. In the stories of Wednesday's Child, people s...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away. In the stories of Wednesday's Child, people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable, until the surface cracks and the grand mysterious forces, death, violence, estrangement, come to light. Even before such moments, everyday life is laden with meaning, studded with indelible details, a filched jar of honey, a mound of wounded ants, a photograph kept hidden for many years, until it must be seen. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 241 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780374606374 0374606374 |