This Close: Stories

by Jessica Francis Kane

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Here, a woman is floored by the loss of her young child and struggles to disentangle her superstitious fears from her terrible sense of guilt. A recent college graduate living in New York City finds himself in a strangely complicated friendship with his Korean dry cleaner and her son. A daughter accompanies her father to Israel, where, seeing a new side of him away from her mother, she makes an unusual bargain. Through twelve finely crafted stories, some stand-alone, others woven with linked characters, Kane explores the tensions between friendship and acquaintance, between love and like, between duty and choice, and reveals the everyday patterns that can - with time and repetition - swerve a life off course.
  • ISBN10 1555970664
  • ISBN13 9781555970666
  • Publish Date 5 March 2013
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Graywolf Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 192
  • Language English