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âTouching and funnyâ short fiction about family, estrangement, and dislocation from the award-winning author of A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself (Elizabeth McCracken, author of Bowlaway).  Featuring âstories about the touchy relationships between parents and children and the necessary pain of letting goâboth for parents with children who are becoming adults and for adults whose parents are aging,â this collection showcases the talent, wit, and wisdom that have earned the author of The Fortunes critical acclaim and multiple literary prizes (Library Journal).  âWith his variety of settings comes a variety of voices: the narrator of âBrave Girl,â trying to help her father navigate the aftermath of divorce; a mathematician in âSmall World,â revisiting the scenes of his Irish-Catholic boyhood and his first love; a retired encyclopedia salesman who canât stop selling himself in âSalesâ; a junkie trying to regain custody of her son in âEverything You Can Remember in 30 Seconds Is Yours to Keep.â Ho manages to convey all his charactersâ predicaments with finesse, and his emotional and geographical range are equally wide.â âBooklist  âI read Equal Love with great admiration.â âPenelope Fitzgerald, author of The Bookshop |
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