You Only Get Letters from Jail
by Jodi Angel
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Jodi Angel' s second story collection, You Only Get Letters from Jail, chronicles the lives of young men trapped in the liminal space between adolescence and adulthood. From picking up women at a bar hours after mom' s overdose to coveting a drowned girl to catching rattlesnakes with gasoline, Angel's characters are motivated by muscle cars, manipulative women, and the hope of escape from circumstances that force them either to grow up or give up. Haunted by unfulfilled dreams and show more disappointments, and often acting out of mixed intentions and questionable motives, these boys turned young men are nevertheless portrayed with depth, tenderness, and humanity. Angel' s gritty and heartbreaking prose leaves readers empathizing with people they wouldn't ordinarily trust or believe in. show lessTags
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I first read Angel's "Snuff" in One Story and knew that I wanted to read more of her work. The stories in this collection run in a similar vein and are very well done. She writes from the perspective of teen boys pretty convincingly, and the stories she tells resonate with a lot of the stories that I wish I could get properly out of my own head and onto paper (so that reading Angel makes me think "what's the point? she's already done it, and better than I could ever hope to"). I'll definitely be reading more by Angel.
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