Circling the Drain: Stories
by Amanda Davis
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Enter into the worlds of fifteen young women who, despite their vastly different circumstances, seem to negotiate an eerily similar and unavoidably dangerous emotional terrain. With a visceral bite or a surreal edge, each electrically charged story in Circling the Drain presents women trying to understand the nature of loss--of leaving or being left--and discovering that in the throes of feverish conflict, things are rarely what they seem. By turns dark and lyrical, show more ferocious and playful, these stories are precise, startling, and undeniably original. Reading them is a cathartic, mesmerizing literary experience. show lessTags
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I picked this up at the library and liked it so much I paid them to let me take it home. Davis' writing is surreal and vivid, she writes about people we all know of, but may not ever meet. Her stories carry a hint of the magical. Amanda Davis died in plane crash a few years ago. Before her death she saw one other book published, Wonder When You'll Miss Me, also a great read.
Nothing new, inventive, or exciting about this collection of stories.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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