Show Them a Good Time
By: Nicole Flattery
3.23
Format: 257 pages, None
A blisteringly original and wickedly funny collection of stories about the strange worlds that wome…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Comedy is tragedy sped up."-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time
"I don't like anybody my own age."-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time
"a feeling of forever melancholy . . ."-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time
"What have I done to deserve this life?"-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time
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1. Birds of America: Stories
By: Lorrie Moore
4.10
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
A long-awaited collection of stories--twelve in all--by one of the most exciting writers at work to… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
"I would be a genius now,"-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
"This is a political New Year's Eve,"-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
"Talent. I don't have talent. I have willingness."-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
"don’t mistake a lack of sophistication for sweetness"-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
2. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
By: Wells Tower
3.90
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island, hoping some mayhem will shake off the winter b… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
3. This Is Memorial Device
By: David Keenan
3.64
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
This Is Memorial Device, the debut novel by David Keenan, is a love letter to the small towns of La… read more
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4. Wednesday's Child: Stories
By: Yiyun Li
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
5. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
6. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
7. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
8. The Glow
By: Jessie Gaynor
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A desperate young publicist tries to save her career by turning the charismatic leader of a grungy … read more
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- feminism
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Everyone agreed that he was brilliant, but he wore his intelligence like his perfect jean jacket- I stole it from my mom, he'd confessed on their first date- an effortless afterthought."-Jessie Gaynor, The Glow
9. Witness: Stories
By: Jamel Brinkley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a National Book Award finalist, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken an… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"According to the terms of her personal lexicon, a woman was a lady only if she was fascinating and ungovernable, and my mother considered herself nothing if not a lady."-Jamel Brinkley, Witness: Stories
10. Drifts
By: Kate Zambreno
3.67
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A restlessly brilliant novel of creative crisis and transformation Beguiling and compulsively re… read more
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- womens
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
11. The End of the World is a Cul de Sac
By: Louise Kennedy
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In The End of the World is a Cul de Sac the political is intertwined with the personal, as Louise K… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
12. Berlin
By: Bea Setton
3.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she … read more
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- womens
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
13. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
14. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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- contemporary
15. Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding
By: Ellena Savage
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
‘I mean who cares about opinions, gossip, whatever, when bodies are so vulnerable, in search only o… read more
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- feminism
- short stories
- contemporary
"Sadness is not always a terrible illness. Sadness is, perhaps, the most honest response to living."-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding
"I need to manage the unmanageable, to contain, correct and formalise the world, because I need to survive it."-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding
"Is 'self-care' a neoliberal scam promoting individualistic coping strategies in the absence of broader social obligations or the possibility of radical structural change? (Well, yes, I say to myself …"-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding
"If there is always a question, and I believe there is, in this case it is this: where is home and what is freedom. The promise we accept is that freedom is the freedom to make ourselves anew, but in …"-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding
16. Modern Times
By: Cathy Sweeney
3.19
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
A woman orders a sex doll for her husband’s birthday. A man makes films without a camera. A married… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
17. You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories
By: Mary South
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In this provocative, bitingly funny debut collection, people attempt to use technology to escape th… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"No one will save her. Nothing is going to magically make it better. The woman has to figure out her life."-Mary South, You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories
"I cradle Keith with a mole against my chest to turn him over, then I massage his butt. "You're special," I whisper in his ear, at a moment when I'm pretty sure no one is looking. "You're a special Ke…"-Mary South, You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories
"The Keiths are Keiths because they are not particularly handsome, not particularly intelligent, not particularly kind. A Keith would never train to compete in professional sports or practice an instr…"-Mary South, You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories
18. I Hear You're Rich
By: Diane Williams
2.60
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Diane Williams, “godmother of flash fiction” (The Paris Review), returns with 33 short, brilliant s… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
19. The Anthropologists
By: Aysegül Savas
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
20. Show Them a Good Time
By: Nicole Flattery
3.23
Format: 257 pages, None
A blisteringly original and wickedly funny collection of stories about the strange worlds that wome… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Nicole Flattery's Show Them a Good Time book and Nicole Flattery's Show Them a Good Time
- literary fiction
- short story collection
- literature
- feminism
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- ireland
- irish literature
"Comedy is tragedy sped up."-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time
"I don't like anybody my own age."-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time
"a feeling of forever melancholy . . ."-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time
"What have I done to deserve this life?"-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time
21. Banal Nightmare
By: Halle Butler
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
