This Close: Twelve Stories
Jul 2013 · Portobello Books
Ebook
158
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About this ebook
Here, a woman is floored by the loss of her young child and struggles to disentangle her superstitious fears from her terrible sense of guilt. A recent college graduate living in New York City finds himself in a strangely complicated friendship with his Korean dry cleaner and her son. A daughter accompanies her father to Israel, where, seeing a new side of him away from her mother, she makes an unusual bargain. Through twelve finely crafted stories, some stand-alone, others woven with linked characters, Kane explores the tensions between friendship and acquaintance, between love and like, between duty and choice, and reveals the everyday patterns that can - with time and repetition - swerve a life off course.
About the author
JESSICA FRANCIS KANE is the author of a debut story collection, Bending Heaven, and a novel The Report which featured on the TV Book Club and BBC Radio 4's Good Reads and was shortlisted for the US Centre for Fiction's First Novel Prize. She lives in New York. www.jessicafranciskane.com
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