A debut short story collection spanning three decades, exploring failed ambitions, marriages, financial schemes, and fraught relationships in contemporary American life.
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A debut short story collection spanning three decades, exploring failed ambitions, marriages, financial schemes, and fraught relationships in contemporary American life.
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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011).
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Multiple stories depict sexual encounters, objectification of women, and older men exploiting adolescents; one features a college freshman's sexual confusion.
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Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Sexually confused college freshman in one story; themes of sexual identity recur across the collection.
Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Subtle social commentary on gender dynamics, consumerism, and economic pressures.
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Stories address older men sexually exploiting adolescents, dementia-related decline, marital coercion, and emotional cruelty.
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