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by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
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Availability:In StockContributor:Sarah Shun-Lien BynumPublish date:2021-09-07Pages:240
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250800114ISBN-10:1250800110UPC:9781250800114Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologySize:7.54 x 5.09 x 0.65 inchesWeight:0.41Product ID:SCZ7RMJD4Y

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Library Journal, Electric Literature, The New York Public Library, PopMatters
A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Story Prize

National Book Award finalist Sarah Shun-lien Bynum's highly anticipated return weaves together like and unlike, mythic and modern

In nine stories that range from the real to the unreal, strange to familiar, funny to frightening, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum reminds us why her wildly original debut, Madeleine Is Sleeping, and her masterful Ms. Hempel Chronicles have become contemporary classics--celebrated and beloved.

In a nimble dance of lightness and gravity, Likes explores the full range and contradictions of our contemporary moment. Through unexpected visitors, Waldorf school fairs, aging indie-film stars, the struggle to gain a foothold in the capitalist shell-game of work, the Instagram posts of a twelve-year-old--these stories of friendship and parenthood, celebrity and obsession, race and class and the passage of time, form an engrossing collection that is both otherworldly and suffused with the deceitful humdrum of everyday life.

For readers of Joy Williams, George Saunders, Lauren Groff, and Deborah Eisenberg, Likes helps us see into our unacknowledged desires and, in quick, artful, nearly invisible cuts, exposes the roots of our abiding terrors and delights.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250800114ISBN-10:1250800110UPC:9781250800114Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologySize:7.54 x 5.09 x 0.65 inchesWeight:0.41Product ID:SCZ7RMJD4Y
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of the novels Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and Madeleine Is Sleeping, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including the New Yorker, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Best American Short Stories, and the O. Henry Prize Stories. The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and an NEA Fellowship, she was named one of "20 Under 40" fiction writers by the New Yorker. She lives in Los Angeles.
Publisher: Picador USA

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