Games and rituals : stories / Katherine Heiny.
The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny's characters range from mischievous and edgy to tenderly touching. In "Damascus," a mother fears her teenage son is making the same youthful mistakes she did, only to realize that he is wiser than she had understood. In "Twist and Shout," Ericka's elderly father mistakes his four-thousand-dollar hearing aid for a cashew. In "Turn Back, Turn Back," a bedtime story coupled with a receipt for a Starbucks babyccino reveal a struggling actor's deception. And in "561," Charlene pays the true price of infidelity when she is forced to help her husband's ex-wife move out of the family home. ("It's like you're North Korea and South Korea... But would North Korea help South Korea move?") From one of today's most accomplished bard's of modern life--of waking up in the wrong bed, wearing the wrong shoes, being late for the wrong job, but being loved by the right people--a fresh and satisfying work of glorious humor and immense kindness.
Record details
- ISBN: 9798885787079
- Physical Description: 353 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, ©2023.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Published in 2023 by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC." --T.p. verso |
Formatted Contents Note: | Chicken-flavored and lemon-scented -- Damascus -- Twist and shout -- Turn back, turn back -- Games and rituals -- CobRa -- 561 -- Pandemic behavior -- Bridesmaid, revisited -- King Midas -- Sky bar. |
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Subject: | Friendship > Fiction. Families > Fiction. Love > Fiction. |
Genre: | Love stories. Humorous fiction. Romance fiction. Domestic fiction. Short stories. Large print books. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Joseph & Elizabeth Shaw Public Library | LP FIC HEINY (Text) | 39636100458443 | Large Print Fiction | Available | - |