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(0)Melissa Broder
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting--until her therapist encourages her to take a ninety-day communication detox from her mother, who raised...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"She has fled to the California desert to escape a cloud of sorrow-both for her father in the ICU and a disabled husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides, however, is not peace but a path, thanks to a receptionist who recommends a nearby hike. Out on the sun-scorched trail, the woman encounters a towering cactus whose size and shape mean it should not exist in California. Yet the cactus is there, with a gash through its side that...
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiv, 290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"One hundred poems. One hundred voices. One hundred points of view. . . . 'Please Excuse This Poem' features one hundred acclaimed younger poets from truly diverse backgrounds and points of view whose work has appeared everywhere from 'The New Yorker' to Twitter, tackling a startling range of subjects in a startling range of poetic forms. Dealing with the aftermath of war; unpacking the meaning of 'the rape joke'; sharing the tender moments at the...