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    612-822-4611

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Death Is Not an Option

Death Is Not an Option

Rivecca, Suzanne

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 0393339904
ISBN13: 9780393339901
Publisher: W W Norton & Co
Published: Jul 1 2011
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.24
Language: English
In these stories, a teacher obsesses over a student who comes to class with scratch marks on his face; a Catholic girl graduating high school finds a warped kind of redemption in her school's contrived class rituals; and a woman looking to rent a house is sucked into a strangely inappropriate correspondence with one of the landlords. These are just a few of the powerful plotlines in Suzanne Rivecca's gorgeously wrought collection. From a college student who adopts a false hippie persona to find love, to a young memoirist who bumps up against a sexually obsessed fan, the characters in these fiercely original tales grapple with what it means to be honest with themselves and the world.

These stories explode with piercing insight . . . illuminating the dangerous dance between victims and saviors. [They] deliver us to the edge of grief, that precarious place where the moral compass spins--where codes of love and law and religion fail. Mercy here depends on a tiger's sublime grace, our capacity to resist deeper harm, and the right of every broken being to remain silent (Melanie Rae Thon).

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