Imagine Your Life Like This - Couverture souple

Layden, Sarah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0299342549 ISBN 13 : 9780299342548

Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 2023

Synopsis

The characters who inhabit Sarah Layden's short story collection are on the verge of change-if only they could see themselves and their situations with greater clarity. Caught in the midst of crises, they stumble toward the future without fully understanding their past. Layden's deft, spare prose sketches worlds and lives with telling details, juggling disparate strands of identity and often revealing the deeper truths in unexpected moments of epiphany.

A bride-to-be puts on her detective hat when her groom goes missing. A woman returns to college after escaping an abusive marriage, only to discover her professor is a fraud. Reunited at a high school reunion, two former classmates completely misinterpret a critical incident from a decade prior. These and other characters find themselves lonely and in limbo, their self-identity as blurry as the old photographs they cling to with stubborn intensity.

Set mostly in the Midwest and upstate New York, Imagine Your Life Like This captures everyday Americans in all their discontent, misunderstandings, and dogged determination for a better world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Sarah Layden, assistant professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, is the author of Trip Through Your Wires, a novel, and The Story I Tell Myself About Myself, winner of the Sonder Press Chapbook Competition. She is co-author with Bryan Furuness of The InvisibleArt of Literary Editing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wisconsin Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0299342549
• ISBN 13: 9780299342548
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
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