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Book

The island dwellers : stories

Call Number

  • FICTION SILV (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Random House, [2018]

Physical Description

259 pages ; 25 cm

Summary

In this debut short-story collection a passive-aggressive couple in the midst of a divorce compete over whose new fling is more exotic. A Russian migrant in Tokyo agonizes over the money her lover accepts from a yakuza. A dead body on a drug dealer's floor leads to the strangest first date ever. In this razor-sharp debut collection, Jen Silverman delivers eleven interconnected stories that take place in expat bars, artist colonies, train stations, and matchbox apartments in the United States and Japan.

Contents

  • Girl Canadian shipwreck
  • Pretoria
  • A great history of American mistakes
  • Maria of the grapes
  • White people
  • The safest place in the world
  • Maureen
  • Mamushi
  • Surveillance
  • The wolf
  • The pike.

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