People Who Live Alone Talk Too Much - Sofi Stambo Genre:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Winner of the 2024 Kellman Prize for Immigrant LiteratureWith the puckish humor of Fran Lebowitz and the keen inventiveness of Lydia Davis, Sofi Stambo's debut collection leans into curiosity, family, and the old world bonds that draw her motley characters together. A nervous dog takes flight over Manhattan. A woman soothes her neighbors with multilingual telepathy. A purse snatcher inherits her victim's scribbled lists and her worries. In these
Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man
a human tries to talk to a limestone cliff using touch
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