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The Truly Needy and Other Stories
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ISBN10: 0822941074
ISBN13: 9780822941071
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Pages: 205
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.74 Depth: 9.29
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780822941071
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Pages: 205
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.74 Depth: 9.29
Language: English
Delving into Lucy Honig's fiction, one is effortlessly and willingly drawn into an intimacy with these resilient, heartbreakingly flawed characters. In each of these nine stories strangers are drawn together in ordinary moments that become extraordinary commentary on the failings and triumphs of the human heart. In Honig's fiction, destitute New Yorkers and determined immigrants are as much at the mercy of social services, media attention, opportunistic politicians, and quality-of-life campaigns as they are prey to grinding poverty, dangerous streets, and their own haunting memories. Crossing paths, these difficult characters often misunderstand and sometimes demean each other, yet they also love and redeem and rescue one other in odd and unexpected ways. Their voices ring out through these stories with poignancy, humor, and heart, reminding us once more of the human capacity to endure.
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