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Also by Cara Blue Adams:

You Never Get It Back, December 2021
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You Never Get It Back
Cara Blue Adams

Iowa Short Fiction Award
University Of Iowa Press
December 2021
On Sale: December 15, 2021
186 pages
ISBN: 1609388135
EAN: 9781609388133
Kindle: B09JWV462G
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Novella / Short Story | Fantasy Anthology

The linked stories in Cara Blue Adams’s precise and observant collection offer elegantly constructed glimpses of the life of Kate, a young woman from rural New England, moving between her childhood in the countryside of Vermont and her twenties and thirties in the northeast, southwest, and South in pursuit of a vocation, first as a research scientist and later as a writer. Place is a palpable presence: Boston in winter, Maine in summer, Virginia’s lush hillsides, the open New Mexico sky. Along the way, we meet Kate’s difficult bohemian mother and younger sister, her privileged college roommate, and the various men Kate dates as she struggles to define what she wants from the world on her own terms.

Wryly funny and shot through with surprising flashes of anger, these smart, dreamy, searching stories show us a young woman grappling with social class, gender, ambition, violence, and the distance between longing and having.

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