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The Cost of Lunch, Etc.: Short Stories

Penned By Marge Piercy
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In this collection of short stories, bestselling author Marge Piercy brings us glimpses into the lives of everyday women moving through and making sense of their daily internal and external worlds. Keeping to the engaging, accessible language of Piercy’s novels, the collection spans decades of her writing along with a range of locations, ages, and emotional states of her protagonists. From the first-person account of hoarding and a girl’s narrative of sexual and spiritual discovery to the recounting of a past love affair, each story is a tangible, vivid snapshot in a varied and subtly curated gallery of work. Whether grappling with death, familial relationships, friendship, sex, illness, or religion, Piercy’s writing is as passionate, lucid, insightful, and thoughtfully alive as ever.The cost of lunch, etc. --Saving mother from herself --Going over Jordan --Scars --She's dying, he said --Somebody who understands you --Do you love me? --The retreat --What remains --The border --I had a friend --Ring around the kleinbottle --The shrine --The easy arrangement --What the arbor said --Fog --What and when I promised --Little sister, cat and mouse --I wasn't losing my mind --How to seduce a feminist (or not)

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