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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Sad Grownups

Sad Grownups

Stuber, Amy

Paperback

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0996981667
ISBN13: 9780996981668
Publisher: Stillhouse Press
Published: Oct 8 2024
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

For those who've been sad and tried not to be, seventeen stories about the absurdity of searching for joy in a dying world.

Winner of the 2025 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection

A neighborhood of picturesque content-creation houses perched on too-green lawns in a California desert; a meandering stampede of unleashed dogs on the streets of San Francisco; a skein of snow geese alighting in a state park in Missouri; an uncanny fundraising auction at an upscale suburban-DC prep school. Inhabiting these worlds of disconnection and dislocation are the sad grownups a middle-aged queer couple arguing over whether to have children, a college professor dying from cancer, two recent high school graduates plotting a robbery, a sixty-year-old counselor at a boys' summer camp sheltering herself from the realities of life-all connected more closely to the landscapes around them than to other people, searching fervently for liberation, understanding, and even happiness, wherever and however they might be found.

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