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Something Came Over Me - Stories (Paperback)
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Something Came Over Me - Stories (Paperback)
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Loot Price R228
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Why did she pack up her car and move cross-country? Drop out of
college and return to her hometown? Perhaps she was seized by
inspiration, had a Joycean epiphany, was impassioned with love or
idealistic zeal. As Cicero wrote, "What moves of itself is eternal,
who can deny that this is the nature of spirits?" In Something Came
Over Me, Eva Murray shares ten stories about women in transition
and explores what moves them. Crystal follows her husband all over
the world as he harvests organs in disaster sites; and Peg drives
the back roads of her haunted memories in Amish Michigan, chasing
the very daemon that chases her. In "Freelancing in the Land of
Gentry," Maureen gets paid to date and write about it--and she's so
hungry for cash, she prays he picks up the check. And in
"Aftershock," an Afghani soldier risks his life for his adopted
America by translating Taliban documents in his war-torn homeland.
He throws a lifeline across the globe to his former teacher, who
navigates the puerile privileged in San Francisco. Murray's stories
render the human heart resilient, surprising; the human character,
tender and vast. "Eva Murray is a rare talent. She has an
extraordinary ear for language, and with her gorgeous prose that
moves beautifully, reminiscent of Edna O'Brien, her fiction has
much to offer readers." Karen Regen-Tuero, Glimmer Train author
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