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American innovations [electronic resource] / Rivka Galchen.

by Galchen, Rivka, author.

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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.

Women -- Fiction.

Short stories, American.

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0374711208 (electronic bk.)

1 online resource (175 pages)

The lost order -- The region of unlikeness -- Sticker shock -- American innovations -- Wild berry blue -- The entire northern side was covered with fire -- Real estate -- Dean of the arts -- The late novels of Gene Hackman -- Once an empire.

In one of the intensely imaginative stories in Rivka Galchen's American Innovations, a young woman's furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator feels compelled to promise to deliver a takeout order that has incorrectly been phoned in to her. In a third, the petty details of a property transaction illuminate the complicated pains and loves of a family. By turns realistic, fantastical, witty, and lyrical, these marvelously uneasy stories are deeply emotional and written in exuberant, pitch-perfect prose. Whether exploring the tensions in a mother-daughter relationship or the finer points of time travel, Galchen is a writer like none other today.

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