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The Safety Of Objects

The Safety Of Objects | A.M. Homes

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The Safety of Objects, A. M. Homes' first collection of short stories, is as hilarious, perverse and extraordinary as all of Homes' books. In one of the stories, a girl's blonde Barbie doll seduces her teenaged brother in an intense episode of erotic obsession; in others a couple go off the rails and smoke crack while their children are staying with their grandmother; and a lawyer seeks revenge on his boss by urinating into his potted plant every evening. The stories are both bizarre and believable, very funny but also frightening and sad.

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The Safety Of Objects | A.M. Homes

Pan

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Ableist, fatphobic, exoticizing bullshit from start to finish.

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The Safety Of Objects | A.M. Homes

Ableism fucking everywhere. Why do "quirky" short story collections by white AFAB people lean so fucking hard on abled protagonists' encounters with people with physical disabilities? ???

Bertha_Mason "Esther in the Night" is the worst offender in this book. 7y

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The Safety Of Objects | A.M. Homes

#30daysofreadathon Day 26: Short Stories
Most of the short stories I own are ebooks, but here is a hardcover collection of rather weird and unsettling ones that I read for #readharder2017 called The Safety of Objects. It would definitely be a fitting read for the October #readathon !

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The Safety Of Objects | A.M. Homes

Pan

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Another in the sick day marathon and this was really odd to say the least. Read for #ReadHarder2017 to meet the prompt to read a collection of short stories by a woman. Disturbing and provocative, the stories didn't have the depth found in the most successful of short stories and I found myself reading just to finish it.