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A debut collection of short stories chronicles the lives and fantasies of young married couples in the suburbs, from the businessman who risks everything to save an eight-pound lobster from consumption to a woman who cuts off her leg at a posh private club. Reprint.
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In her debut collection, Julia Slavin conjures a world that is both familiar and limitless, where amidst our ordinary lives the banal and the unimaginable brush up against one another with startling grace and ease. From a lovelorn woman who sprouts teeth all over her body, to a man who literally falls to pieces, The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club is an inspiring work of the imagination, and a satiric and piercing look at the soul.
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