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02208aam a2200313 i 4500 001 963B9666122B11EDB028045E3CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220802012256 008 211013s2022 nyu e 000 j eng d 020 $a 0316434191 020 $a 9780316434195 040 $d SILO 050 14 $a PS3563.A3387 $b A6 2022 082 04 $a 813 $2 23 100 1 $a Macy, Caitlin, $e author. 245 12 $a A blind corner : $b stories / $c Caitlin Macy. 264 1 $a New York : $b Little Brown & Company, $c 2022. 300 $a 211 pages ; $c 25 cm. 505 00 $t The little rats. $t Nude hose -- $t A blind corner -- $t The taker -- $t We don't believe in that crap -- $t Residents only -- $t The little rats. 520 $a "In an era of "hot takes" and easy generalizations, this collection reclaims the absurdities and paradoxes of life as it is actually lived from the American fantasy of "niceness". In Macy's world, human desires and fatal blind spots slam headlong into convenient, social-media-driven narratives that would sort us into neat boxes of insider or outsider; good or bad; with us or against us. Time and again, whether at home or in the age-old role of Americans abroad, Macy's women see their good intentions turn awry. A woman who tries to do a good deed for an underprivileged child sees it go horribly wrong. A wife, attempting to be a good host to a friend's strange ex-boyfriend, finds herself in a compromised situation. And, in the title story, a newlywed fancies herself a Euro-sophisticate until an accident reminds her just how truly foreign she really is. In tales where shocking and sometimes brutal events disabuse characters of their most cherished beliefs, Macy forgoes easy moralization in favor of uncomfortable truths that reveal the complexity of what it means to be human."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Interpersonal relations $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Good and evil $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Short stories. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 4 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010033902.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20230725010435.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230706014600.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220802013744.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=963B9666122B11EDB028045E3CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search