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Dazzling The New York Times Book Review Editors Choice
Richly satisfying The Wall Street Journal
These are stories you want to live ina collection perfectly suited for our moment Booklist starred review
A collection of stories so beautifully crafted they feel like tiny worlds unto themselves Los Angeles Times about women experiencing all lifes beauty and challenges from awardwinning writer Megan Mayhew Bergman
A recently separated woman fills a huge terrarium with rare flowers to establish control over a small world and attempt to heal her broken heart A competitive swimmer negotiates over which days she will fulfill her wifely duties and which days she will keep for herself A peach farmer wonders if her orchard will survive a drought And generations of a family in South Carolina struggle with fidelity and their cruel past some clinging to old ways and others painfully carving new paths
In this closely observed The New Yorker collection Megan Mayhew Bergman portrays women who wrestle with problematic inheritances a modern glass house on a treacherous California cliff a waterstarved ranch and an abandoned plantation on a river near Charleston Bergmans stories are so emotionally rich that they serve as portals into distinct interior worldsthis collection is distinct and vividAs singular as it is atmospheric Kirkus Reviews starred review
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