
Survival Tips
Stories
Miriam Gershow(Author)
Propeller Books (Publisher)
Published on 19. March 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
166 pages
978-1-955593-08-3 (ISBN)
Description
Survival Tips: Stories follows characters through their friendships, their jobs, their marriages, and their grief as they stumble toward connection and meaning. A wife begins communicating to her husband only in rebus puzzles. A new teacher confronts her strongest foes, the parents of a disruptive student. A group of conference-goers join their guru in a jerry-rigged sweat lodge. A woman shows up to her blind date in a "Don't Leave Me" t-shirt. With wit and candor, these ten stories examine the ways we live, the mistakes we make, and the paths we take in hopes of delivering us to ourselves and each other.
The collection features twenty years of stories that have appeared in The Georgia Review, Quarterly West, Pithead Chapel, Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, and other top publications.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
195 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-955593-08-3 (9781955593083)
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Miriam Gershow's debut novel, The Local News, was hailed as "unusually credible and precise" and "deftly heartbreaking" by The New York Times and was a finalist for an Oregon Book Award. Her stories have appeared in The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, and Black Warrior Review, among other journals, and her creative nonfiction has been featured in journals including Salon and Craft Literary. She is the recipient of a Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and an Oregon Literary Fellowship, and her stories have been listed in the Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories. She teaches writing at the University of Oregon.