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Cool for America - Stories (Hardcover)
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Cool for America - Stories (Hardcover)
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Cool for America is bookended by the misadventures of Leslie, a
young woman first introduced in Early Work, who moves from New York
to Missoula, Montana, to try to draw herself out of a lingering
depression and, over the course of the book, gains painful insight
into herself through a series of intense friendships and
relationships. Other stories follow young men and women, alone and
in couples, pushing hard against, and often crashing into, the
limits of their abilities as writers and partners. In one story,
two New Jersey siblings with substance-abuse problems relapse
together on Christmas Eve; in another, a young couple tries to make
sense of an increasingly unhinged veterinarian who seems to be
tapping, deliberately or otherwise, into the unspoken troubles
between them. In stories that follow characters as they age from
punk shows and benders to book clubs and art museums, and the
promise of community acts, at least temporarily as a stay against
despair. Running throughout is the characters' yearning for a
transcendence through art: the hope that, maybe, the perfect, or
even just the good- enough sentence, can finally make things right.
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