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Riverhead
May 2013
On Sale: May 7, 2013
208 pages
ISBN: 1594487952
EAN: 9781594487958
Kindle: B00AEBEW2C
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Fiction Family Life
Reminiscent of Aimee Bender and Karen Russell—an enthralling
new collection that uses the world of the imagination to
explore the heart of the human condition.
Major new
literary talent Ramona Ausubel combines the otherworldly
wisdom of her much-loved debut novel, No One Is Here
Except All of Us, with the precision of the short-story
form. A Guide toBeing Born is organized around the
stages of life—love, conception, gestation, birth—and the
transformations that happen as people experience deeply
altering life events, falling in love, becoming parents,
looking toward the end of life. In each of these eleven
stories Ausubel’s stunning imagination and humor are moving,
entertaining, and provocative, leading readers to see the
familiar world in a new way.
In “Atria” a pregnant
teenager believes she will give birth to any number of
strange animals rather than a human baby; in “Catch and
Release” a girl discovers the ghost of a Civil War hero
living in the woods behind her house; and in “Tributaries”
people grow a new arm each time they fall in love. Funny,
surprising, and delightfully strange—all the stories have a
strong emotional core; Ausubel’s primary concern is always
love, in all its manifestations.
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