Iris Smyles
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One of the Believer 's Best Books of the Year: One woman's journey through that awkward period between being born and dying. A modern odyssey about trying to find one's home in the world, this collection of wickedly funny and offbeat vignettes touches upon quantum physics; the Donner Party; arctic exploration; Greek mythology; Rocky I , II , V , IV , VI , and III respectively; and literary immortality. Dating Tips for the Unemployed "melds novel,...
2) Droll Tales
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English
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Transformation, identity, and speech that conceals and misleads as much as it explains form the core of these fourteen linked stories and novelettes. We are guided through them by "Iris" and her friend "Jacob," who, over the course of the book, appear in a variety of guises. They introduce, interact with, or inhabit various characters, each with their own stories to tell. In the romantic, dark, and sometimes surreal worlds they occupy, the commonplace...