What Makes You Think You're Supposed to Feel Better: Stories
What Makes You Think You're Supposed to Feel Better: Stories
What Makes You Think You're Supposed to Feel Better: Stories
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Description
Description
The grisly death of the hermit outsider in a tight-knit neighborhood prompts a young mom to yearn for solitude. A man wrestles with regrets from a 30-year-old affair while his wife hovers toward death in the ICU. An older, childless woman aches to rescue the seemingly mistreated child she observes in the grocery store. And a girl's desire to avoid the party her father dragged her to nearly gets her abducted. Told with restraint and deep compassion against the backdrop of Virginia back streets and small towns, Jody Hobbs Hesler's debut collection shines with its portraits of longing, disconnection, and the ache for renewal and redemption that comes from our own frailties.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Eloquent, elegant, deftly crafted, original, thoughtfully entertaining...an especially and unreservedly recommended pick for personal reading lists, as well as community, and college/university library Literary Fiction & Short Story Anthology collections." -Midwest Book Review
"This is a collection to be treasured, returned to, and remembered as a source of revelation." -Pamela Petro, author of The Long Field
"A deceptively simple style graced by brilliant detail and dialogue." -Ellen Prentiss Campbell, author of Frieda's Song
"A collection that brings you in and takes you with it; every story is so deeply felt." -Louise Marburg, author of No Diving Allowed
"A memorable debut." -Wendy J. Fox, author of What If We Were Somewhere Else
"Leaves you with a sense of having grasped something vital about the human condition." -Elizabeth Shick, author of The Golden Land
"You will shed real tears and, after the last page, look at your neighbors with a softened gaze." -Celeste Mohammed, author of Pleasantview
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