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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Tender Cuts

Tender Cuts

Martin, Jayne

Paperback

HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1925965244
ISBN13: 9781925965247
Publisher: Vine Leaves Press
Published: Nov 4 2019
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.19 Width: 8.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

If Joy Williams and Raymond Carver had a love child that was often left in the care of Lydia Davis it might grow up to be Jayne Martin. Martin's writing evokes the literary DNA of those who have influenced her most, while in a style and voice that is uniquely her own.

In these 38 tiny tales, everyday people do their best to manage the wounds life inflicts on all of us: A six-year-old beauty pageant contestant strives to please her demanding mother; a woman marries a 1985 Buick LeSabre; in a laundromat bored wives fall under the romantic spell of a lobster; a grown woman is still being fat-shamed by her deceased mother via a Ouija board; a widow carries her husband's ashes around in Baggies.

With pathos and humor, these and all of the characters in this collection will speak to the reader's own wounded heart.

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