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02906aam a2200385 i 4500 001 415A50D6E67F11EE94C7D61345ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240320010038 008 230318t20232022pauc 000 j eng d 020 $a 9788985725620 020 $a 8985725629 020 $a 9798985725629 035 $a (OCoLC)1372278241 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d IND $d OCLCF $d YDX $d WTU $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3613.I34525 $b C66 2023 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20231026 100 1 $a Michalski, Jen, $e author. 240 10 $a Company of strangers (Compilation) 245 14 $a The company of strangers : $b stories / $c Jen Michalski. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Braddock, PA : $b Braddock Avenue Books, $c 2023. 300 $a 194 pages : $b portrait ; $c 22 cm 520 $a The stories in Jen Michalski's new collection reveal an America in which ideas of genuine community ring false and the spiritual backbone of family life is damaged, perhaps beyond repair. Characters, many of them queer Gen-Xers of a certain age, find themselves looking--often desperately--for a way to understand the lives they've lived and a way to move forward with at least the possibility of future happiness. In "Long Haul," a gay man visits his estranged uncle to lay to rest the unresolved guilt they both feel over the childhood disappearance of his sister. In "Great White" a gay man who was the sperm donor to a lesbian friend's pregnancy, is confronted with the possibility of genuine parenthood when the friend's partner dies and she is laid-low by grief. And in the title story, a young woman affirms her sexuality by having an affair with her brother's wife; the fallout leading her to regain her footing only when she befriends an elderly gay couple vacationing in the area. In stories that relentlessly demonstrate the tensions of the 21st century, Michalski's The Company Of Strangers provides a sometimes comical, sometimes touching portrait of what is perhaps our most pressing question: How do we make a life? 505 00 $t Scheherazade. $t The lonliest creature on earth -- $t The long haul -- $t The meteor -- $t Your second left fielder -- $t Great white -- $t Eat a peach -- $t I'm such a slut and I don't give a fuck -- $t The company of strangers -- $t The bowling story -- $t The piano -- $t The goodbye party -- $t The club of the missing -- $t Are you ready to be heartbroken? -- $t Scheherazade. 650 0 $a Gay men $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Lesbians $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Generation X $v Fiction. 655 7 $a short stories. $2 aat $0 (CStmoGRI)aatgf300202607 655 7 $a Short stories $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726740 655 7 $a LGBTQ+ short stories. $2 homoit 655 7 $a Short stories. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Nouvelles. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000322 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240320011917.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=415A50D6E67F11EE94C7D61345ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search