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The souvenir museum : stories /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]Edition: First editionDescription: 243 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780062971289
  • 006297128X
  • 9780063063167
  • 0063063166
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Souvenir museum.DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3563.C35248 S68 2021
Contents:
The Irish wedding -- Proof -- It's not you -- A splinter -- Mistress Mickle all at sea -- Birdsong from the radio -- The get-go -- Robinson Crusoe at the waterpark -- A walk-through human heart -- Two sad clowns -- The souvenir museum -- Nothing, darling, only darling, darling.
Summary: "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 date"--Summary: In 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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
F F Chamberlin Free Public Library Fiction F MCC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000579817

The Irish wedding -- Proof -- It's not you -- A splinter -- Mistress Mickle all at sea -- Birdsong from the radio -- The get-go -- Robinson Crusoe at the waterpark -- A walk-through human heart -- Two sad clowns -- The souvenir museum -- Nothing, darling, only darling, darling.

"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 date"--

In 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.

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