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A Guide to Being Born: Stories

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A Guide to Being Born: Stories

Reminiscent of Aimee Bender and Karen Russellâ€”an enthralling collection that uses the world of the imagination to explore the heart of the human condition.

Major literary talent Ramona Ausubel, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, coming Summer 2016, combines the otherworldly wisdom of her much-loved debut novel,Â No One Is Here Except All of Us, with the precision of the short-story form.Â A Guide toBeing Born is organized around the stages of lifeâ€”love, conception, gestation, birthâ€”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 Ausubelâ€™s stunning imagination and humor are moving, entertaining, and provocative, leading readers to see the familiar world in a new way.

In â€œAtriaâ€ a pregnant teenager believes she will give birth to any number of strange animals rather than a human baby; in â€œCatch and Releaseâ€ a girl discovers the ghost of a Civil War hero living in the woods behind her house; and in â€œTributariesâ€ people grow a new arm each time they fall in love. Funny, surprising, and delightfully strangeâ€”all the stories have a strong emotional core; Ausubelâ€™s primary concern is always love, in all its manifestations.

Country	USA
Author	Ramona Ausubel
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9781594487958
Edition	First Edition
ISBN	1594487952
Label	Riverhead Books
Manufacturer	Riverhead Books
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	208
PublicationDate	2013-05-02
Publisher	Riverhead Books
ReleaseDate	2013-05-02
Studio	Riverhead Books

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