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To Be a Man Stories

eBook - 2020

"A sustained shot of brilliance" (Boston Globe)—ten globetrotting stories exploring the complex relationships between men and women.A Best Book/Short Story Collection of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine, Financial Times, Esquire, Lit Hub, Bustle, Electric Literature, Library JournalNew York Times Editors' ChoiceNicole Krauss plunges fearlessly into the struggle to understand men and women and the tensions that have existed in all relationships from the beginning of time. Set in our contemporary moment and moving across the globe from Switzerland, Japan, and New York City to Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, and an unnamed country in South America, the stories in To Be a Man feature men as fathers, lovers, friends, children, seducers, a...nd even a lost husband who may never have been a husband at all.The way these stories mirror one another and resonate is beautiful, with a balance so...

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