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What are boys and men thinking? That's what the wry, observant, heartbroken and hilarious girls and women in these stories want to know. What are they thinking when they warn women against adventure, gulp ale in moonlit truck wrecks, steal their fingers down their nurses' thighs, tell their little girls fairy tales? What are insane boys the most exquisite, and where have the musical geniuses flown without our love? What is Jerome Hepditch doing in a loincloth, and how will his wives acquire escape vehicles? Winner of the 2006 Metcalf-Rooke Award, this collection is about women's hunger and men's minds, and what survives when they collide.

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Annabel's combined print/e-book sales of 21,000 does not include her 24,000+ UK sales or 70,000 Canadian sales. Annabel has been translated into 6 languages Previous KW coverage in O, NYTRB, New Yorker, Rumpus &more It was the only book in 2010 to be nominated for all three major Canadian fiction awards, plus the Orange Prize and the IMPAC Dublin the year after Despite the worldwide success of her novel, the short story is where KW really excels: she's funnier, she's quirkier, she's more attentive to both her language (which in Annabel was universally praised for its lyrical quality), and landscapes (called "crystalline"). Here she also maintains her interests in the ambiguities of gender/sexual orientation and the impact of loneliness, which are two of the things that made Annabel—a novel about a hermaphrodite in Newfoundland—so compelling. Stories vary in length & perspective, & they're eccentric, but aren't particularly difficult—a book for the general as well as the literary reader In her words, here are the collection's major themes & issues: Growing up gay in smalltown North America. Self-destructive love affairs with catastrophic people. The pervasive loneliness that fills the modern world despite its proliferation of so-called social media. Gut-ripping inappropriate laughter. The holiness of ordinary life. Family secrets

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