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Wife with Knife
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.00
ISBN13: 9781948585293
Publisher: Leapfrog Press
Published: Nov 16 2021
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.95 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Winner of the Pushcart Prize and the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize
This collection is her best ever. -- AMY TANWife with Knife is a collection of quick and quirky short stories, that are an utter delight and winner of the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize 2020
Molly Giles' stories have always been among my favorites since I first read her work thirty-seven years ago. This collection is her best ever. What an irreverent, original voice! I found myself gasping in shock and laughter, feeling at the end of each tale that I had garnered strange wisdom on the human heart and its unerring sense for finding trouble. -- Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club
The speakers in Molly Giles's Wife With Knife offer their truths with surprising starkness: [T]he actual heart looks more like a tongue than a valentine states the grief-flayed aunt of Agate Beach, while the careless driver of Accident thinks If I rear-ended anyone in California, I might be sued or shot but I would not be prayed upon. Many of the stories are not traditional narratives but glimpses of the trouble or healing that lies ahead: teens refusing to heed traffic, lovers staring down death and betrayal and closure. Like a street magician's trick, Wife With Knife holds out each everyday tragedy or quiet triumph only to replace it seamlessly with another.
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