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A debut collection of short fiction explores the diverse faces and implications of loss--of love, healthy, family, or life--in a group of female characters in various stages of life, in such works as "Cardiff-by-the Sea," "Plan B," "Outcomes," and the title story. A first collection. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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In the title story, two sisters are slowly losing their parents to mental illness. In "Cardiff-by-the-Sea," a soldier who lost his sight in Vietnam is given a second chance through a new relationship with a daughter he didn't know he had. In "Plan B," a woman loses her husband to an affair with someone much younger - and then her grip on sanity. A hospice worker in "Outcomes," steals inconsequential tokens from her patients, a habit, both strange and intimate, that soon becomes a necessary part of her life.
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