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A virtual event with winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award Cara Blue Adams for a discussion of her debut book "You Never Get it Back," joined by Pulitzer Prize finalist Elif Batuman. This event was pre-recorded.
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In thirteen elegant and perceptive stories, You Never Get It Back offers glimpses of the life of Kate Bishop, a young woman from rural New England, moving between her childhood in the countryside of Vermont and her twenties and early thirties in the northeast, southwest, and South in search of a vocation, first as a research scientist and later as a writer. Place is a palpable presence: Boston in winter, Maine in summer, Virginia's lush hillsides, the open New Mexico sky. Along the way, we meet Kate's difficult, bohemian mother and younger sister, her privileged college roommate, and the various men Kate dates as she struggles to define what she wants from the world on her own terms.
Wryly funny and complex, shot through with surprising flashes of anger, these smart, searching stories show us a young woman grappling with class and privilege, gender, ambition, violence, and the distance between longing and having. Ultimately, this wistful and intimate collection asks how a person can transcend what the world expects of her to make a life with others that is truly her own.
A virtual event with winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award Cara Blue Adams for a discussion of her debut book "You Never Get it Back," joined by Pulitzer Prize finalist Elif Batuman. This event was pre-recorded.
Strand Events: strandbooks.com/events
Shop The Strand: strandbooks.com
Follow us! @strandbookstore
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/strandbooks...
twitter: twitter.com/strandbookstore
tik tok: tiktok.com/@strandbookstore
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In thirteen elegant and perceptive stories, You Never Get It Back offers glimpses of the life of Kate Bishop, a young woman from rural New England, moving between her childhood in the countryside of Vermont and her twenties and early thirties in the northeast, southwest, and South in search of a vocation, first as a research scientist and later as a writer. Place is a palpable presence: Boston in winter, Maine in summer, Virginia's lush hillsides, the open New Mexico sky. Along the way, we meet Kate's difficult, bohemian mother and younger sister, her privileged college roommate, and the various men Kate dates as she struggles to define what she wants from the world on her own terms.
Wryly funny and complex, shot through with surprising flashes of anger, these smart, searching stories show us a young woman grappling with class and privilege, gender, ambition, violence, and the distance between longing and having. Ultimately, this wistful and intimate collection asks how a person can transcend what the world expects of her to make a life with others that is truly her own.
