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02601aim a2200325 i 4500 001 35E44AEC61B211EE96A426B62DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231003010052 007 r 008 230315s2023|||||||||n||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 9798212209403 040 $d IaSh $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Slaughter, Erin,. 245 12 $a A manual for how to love us $h [sound recording] : $b stories / $c Erin Slaughter. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b HarperAudio, $c 2023. 300 $a 8 cds, (9.5 hrs.) : $b digital. 511 $a Read by Erin deWard. 520 $a A debut, interlinked collection of stories exploring the primal nature of women's grief--offering insight into the profound experience of loss and the absurd ways in which we seek control in an unruly world. Seamlessly shifting between the speculative and the blindingly real, balancing the bizarre with the subtle brutality of the mundane, A Manual for How to Love Us is a tender portrait of women trying their best to survive, love, and find genuine meaning in the aftermath of loss. In these unconventional and unpredictably connected stories, Erin Slaughter shatters the stereotype of the soft-spoken, sorrowful woman in distress, queering the domestic and honoring the feral in all of us. In each story, grieving women embrace their wildest impulses as they attempt to master their lives: one woman becomes a "gazer" at a fraternity house, another slowly moves into her otherworldly stained-glass art, a couple speaks only in their basement's black box, and a thruple must decide what to do when one partner disappears. The women in Erin Slaughter's stories suffer messy breaks, whisper secrets to the ghosts tangled in the knots of their hair, eat raw meat to commune with their inner wolves, and build deadly MLM schemes along the Gulf Coast. Set across oft-overlooked towns in the American South, A Manual for How to Love Us spotlights women who are living on the brink and clinging to its precipitous edge. Lyrical and surprisingly humorous, A Manual for How to Love Us is an exciting debut that reveals the sticky complications of living in a body, in all its grotesquerie and glory. 541 $d 20230328. 650 4 $a Grief $x Fiction. 650 4 $a Loss (Psychology) $x Fiction. 650 4 $a Short stories, American $y 21st century. 655 7 $a Audiobooks. 655 7 $a Linked stories. 655 7 $a Short stories. 700 $a DeWard, Erin, $e narrator. 941 $a 1 952 $l XAPE737 $d 20231003010236.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=35E44AEC61B211EE96A426B62DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search