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Souvenir Museum: Stories
Souvenir Museum: Stories | Elizabeth McCracken
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Award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to dateIn these stories, the mysterious bonds of family are tested, transformed, fractured, and fortified. A recent widower and his adult son ferry to a craggy Scottish island in search of puffins. An actress who plays a children's game-show villainess ushers in the New Year with her deadbeat half brother. A mother, pining for her children, feasts on loaves of challah to fill the void. A new couple navigates a tightrope walk toward love. And on a trip to a Texas water park with their son, two fathers each confront a personal fear. With sentences that crackle and spark and showcase her trademark wit, McCracken traces how our closely held desires--for intimacy, atonement, comfort--bloom and wither against the indifferent passing of time. Her characters embark on journeys that leave them indelibly changed--and so do her readers. The Souvenir Museum showcases the talents of one of our finest contemporary writers as she tenderly takes the pulse of our collective and individual lives.
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DimeryRene
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This collection was great!! I really loved a lot of the stories.

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Moray_Reads
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Mehso-so

As is so often the case with short story collections this is a mixed bag but McCracken is a wonderful writer. My favourites were Proof and Birdsong from the Radio. And it's another bingo! #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

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Well-ReadNeck
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First, I enjoy following Elizabeth McCraken on Twitter. She‘s a delight member of book Twitter, to be sure. Her humor and quirky point of view is also on display in this collection of short stories. Unfortunately, like many story collections, this one is uneven. #ARC #Netgalley

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