Wife with Knife
Paperback 208 pages English Nov 16, 2021
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Winner of the Pushcart Prize and the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize"This collection is her best ever." -- AMY TANWife with Knife is a collection of quick and quirky short stories, that are an utter delight and winner of the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize 2020"Molly Giles' stories have always been among my favorites since I first read her work thirty-seven years ago. This collection is her best ever. What an irreverent, original voice! I found myself gasping in shock and laughter, feeling at the end of each tale that I had garnered strange wisdom on the human heart and its unerring sense for finding trouble." -- Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck ClubThe speakers in Molly Giles's Wife With Knife offer their truths with surprising starkness: "[T]he actual heart looks more like a tongue than a valentine" states the grief-flayed aunt of "Agate Beach," while the careless driver of "Accident" thinks "If I rear-ended anyone in California, I might be sued or shot but I would not be prayed upon." Many of the stories are not traditional narratives but glimpses of the trouble or healing that lies ahead: teens refusing to heed traffic, lovers staring down death and betrayal and closure. Like a street magician's trick, Wife With Knife holds out each everyday tragedy or quiet triumph only to replace it seamlessly with another.
- Author:
- Molly Giles
- Publisher:
- Leapfrog Press
- Publication Date:
- Nov 16, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 208 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1948585294
- ISBN-13:
- 9781948585293