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Object of Desire by Dal Maclean6/28/2023 In these eleven powerful stories, thrilling desire and melancholic yearning animate women's lives, from the brink of adulthood to the labyrinthine path between twenty and thirty, to middle age, when certain possibilities quietly elapse. An office worker, exhausted by the ambitions of the men around her, emerges into a gridlocked city one afternoon to make a decision. A wife considers the secrets her marriage once contained. A long-lost stepbrother's visit to New York prompts a family's reckoning with its old taboos. A mother prepares for her son's wedding, her own life unraveling as his comes together. Entertainment Weekly Fresh, intimate stories of women's lives from an extraordinary new literary voice, laying bare the unexpected beauty and irony in contemporary life A college freshman, traveling home, strikesup an odd, ephemeral friendship with the couple next to her on the plane. you wish that every single entry could be an entire novel. "A debut story collection of the rarest kind.
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