Everything We Hoped For
by Pip Adam
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An unusually strong first book, this collection of short stories depends on exquisitely crafted surfaces that conceal shocking emotional force. Three of the stories are obliquely connected and feature young women on the edge. In the first of these, a new mother contemplates her new baby; in the second, a girl finds herself in rehab; and in the final story, the main character goes to jail. Other characters include a New Zealand serviceman returned from active duty in Dili, the employees of a show more 2 shop, and a vegan couple at a Samoan resort. show lessTags
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Pip Adam is a New Zealand author of the book, The New Animals, which won the Acorn Foundation Literary Prize in 2018. Her work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies in New Zealand and overseas. In 2012 she received an Arts Foundation of New Zealand New Generation Award and her first book Everything We Hoped For won the New Zealand Post show more Best First Book award in 2011. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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