Short stories of the American West where ordinary events trigger strange, unsettling shifts for plainspoken characters.
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Short stories of the American West where ordinary events trigger strange, unsettling shifts for plainspoken characters.
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A new collection of stories set in the West from "one of the most gifted and versatile of contemporary writers" (NPR) Percival Everett's long-awaited new collection of stories, his first since 2004's Damned If I Do , finds him traversing the West with characteristic restlessness. A deaf Native American girl wanders off into the desert and is found untouched in a den of rattlesnakes. A young boy copes with the death of his sister by angling for an unnaturally large trout in the creek where she dr...
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Snakebite leading to hallucinations; drowning referenced
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Self-harm / suicide
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Sister's drowning and grief coping central to one story
Abuse & suffering
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Death, loss, and animal encounters in several stories
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