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Title:
I meant it once : stories
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That is shocking.

This is the way things are now.

Two pisces emote about the passage of time.

Moments earlier.

You are with me.

What else happened.

I figured we were doomed.

There's no telling.

Hello it's you.

We can't exlpain.

Cinnamon baseball coyote.

Goldfish in the pond at the community garden.

At the time.

Aren't we lucky.

Like a cloud, lighter than air.

Briefly.
Summary:
With this sharp and witty debut collection, author Kate Doyle captures precisely that time of life when so many young women are caught in between, pre-occupied by nostalgia for past relationships—with friends, roommates, siblings—while trying to move forward into an uncertain future. In “That Is Shocking,” a college student relates a darkly funny story of romantic humiliation, one that skirts the parallel story of a friend she betrayed. In others, young women long for friends who have moved away, or moved on. In “Cinnamon Baseball Coyote” and other linked stories about siblings Helen, Evan, and Grace, their years of inside jokes and brutal tensions simmer over as the three spend a holiday season in an amusing whirl of rivalry and mutual attachment, and a generational gulf widens between them and their parents. Throughout, in stories both lyrical and haunting, young women search for ways to break free from the expectations of others and find a way to be in the world. Written with crystalline prose and sly humor, the stories in I Meant It Once build to complete a profoundly recognizable portrait of early adulthood and the ways in which seemingly incidental moments can come to define the stories we tell ourselves. For fans of Elif Batuman, Ottessa Moshfegh, Patricia Lockwood, and Melissa Bank, these stories about being young and adrift in today’s world go down easy and pack a big punch. -- Amazon.
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
246 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher:
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
Publication Date:
2023
ISBN:
9781643752815
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023.

©2023
Call Number:
DOYLE
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