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A playful debut short story collection imagining women’s lives in a world free of social limitations. Amid heightened restrictions about what women can and cannot do with their bodies, Lynn Schmeidler’s debut short story collection, Half-Lives, is a humane, absurd, and timely collection of...

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Product ID:	9781637680919
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	Half-Lives
Authors:	Author: Lynn Schmeidler
Page Count:	166
Subjects:	Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories, Gender studies: women and girls, Short stories, Gender studies: women
Description:	A playful debut short story collection imagining women’s lives in a world free of social limitations. Amid heightened restrictions about what women can and cannot do with their bodies, Lynn Schmeidler’s debut short story collection, Half-Lives, is a humane, absurd, and timely collection of narratives centering on women’s bodies and psyches. Playful and experimental, these sixteen stories explore girlhood, sexuality, motherhood, identity, and aging in a world where structures of societal norms, narrative, gender, and sometimes even physics do not apply. The protagonists grapple with the roles they choose and with those that are thrust upon them as they navigate their ever-evolving emotional lives. A woman lists her vagina on Airbnb, Sleeping Beauty is a yoga teacher who lies in state on the dais of her mother’s studio, and a museum intern writes a confession of her affair in the form of a hijacked museum audio guide. Half-Lives is the 2023 Rising Writer Prize winner, selected by Matt Bell.
Imprint Name:	Autumn House Press
Publisher Name:	Autumn House Press
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2024-03-26

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Weight	362 g
Dimensions	203 × 152 × 20 mm