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Jessica Hollander's debut collection exposes a culture that glorifies and disparages traditional domesticity, where people's confusion, apathy, and anxiety about the institutions of marriage and family often drive them to self-destruction.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hollander, Jessica, 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Young women.
FICTION > General.
Jeunes femmes > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Young women > Fiction.
Fiction.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • You are a good girl I love you
  • If we miss the beginning
  • This kind of happiness
  • I would stop
  • What became of what she had made
  • The year we are twenty-three
  • Put the animals to bed
  • March on
  • The good luck doll
  • In these times the home is a tired place
  • How to be a prisoner
  • Like falling down and laughing
  • I now pronounce you
  • Buttons
  • January on the ground
  • Ruckus, exhaustion
  • Staring contests
  • The problem with moving
  • Blooms lined up like this.

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