Erin McGraw, Author . Mariner $12 (191p) ISBN 978-0-618-38627-7
McGraw (Lies of the Saints
, etc.
) ably leavens heartbreak with humor in this slim collection of poignant stories. As in her two previous collections, she renders quirky, refreshingly real characters—a mediocre ballet dancer who takes in a...
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Erin McGraw, Author . Houghton Mifflin $24 (384p) ISBN 978-0-618-38628-4
Unfortunately for Nell Plat, the heroine of Erin McGraw's immersive fifth book (after The Good Life
), she is a whiz with a needle, but a failure in the kitchen. While she makes a name for herself sewing dresses in early 20th-century Grant...
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Erin McGraw, Author Chronicle Books $12.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8118-1315-0
McGraw (Bodies at Sea) is a master creator of oddball yet always believable characters. This collection of quirky narratives teems with endearing misfits and the slightly skewed communication with which people slide past each other's meanings. In ""T
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Erin McGraw, Author University of Illinois Press $14.95 (158p) ISBN 978-0-252-01631-8
Carefully crafted, finely tuned, the 11 short stories in this collection often examine subtle shifts in family relationships. In ``Accepted Wisdom,'' a coal miner whose wife has deserted him dotes upon his loving and capable teenaged daughter, only...
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Erin McGraw. Wipf and Stock/Slant, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-1-62032-668-8
The debut novel of a new literary fiction imprint relates the tale of three couples who start an ice cream shop in northern California to make the world a better place through their socially aware business. (The napkins bear mottoes like "Our goal...
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Erin McGraw. Counterpoint, $24 (224p) ISBN 978-1-64009-208-2
McGraw’s fourth collection proves she’s a master of the form. Across these 53 brief stories, it is astonishing what she is able to conjure up in the span of a few pages. In “Second Sight,” a married lesbian couple on the rocks has their relationship
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