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With a rare blend of precision and shimmer these finely crafted stories tracethe hearts hairline fractures the small indignities that foreshadow tectonicshifts. A fifteenyearold girl in the grips of an eating disorder the newwife of a weapons engineer a widow who signs up for a figure drawing class the diverse characters who populate Tinsleys world crave safety andconnection only to be faced with the truth of forever and alone.Quirky and resilient they refuse victimhood drawing instead on their savvyand sense of humor for creative ways to assert themselves even in extremity. Acancer survivor in a loveless marriage dons snorkel mask and flippers beforeshe slips into the sea. A woman with a history of panic attacks abducted by abumbling version of the man of her nightmares plunges beyond her terror. Inthe five linked stories of the volumes title a navy brat displaced overseasforges through early adolescence against a background of emotional disruptionand neglect.In language as luminous as cut glass Tinsleys stories capture both thepoignancy and the absurdity of our postmodern lives. «
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