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    Here Is What You Do: Stories
    Here Is What You Do: Stories
    Here Is What You Do: Stories
    Audiobook5 hours

    Here Is What You Do: Stories

    Written by Chris Dennis

    Narrated by Tanya Eby and Paul Boehmer

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    About this audiobook

    A debut short story collection that explores the vulnerability, grit, and complex nature of our humanity from a new, vital queer voice.

    A yacht races to outrun a tsunami. A young man jailed on a drug charge forms a relationship with his cellmate that is by turns tender and brutal. A family buys a rural slaughterhouse, and tensions quickly escalate between them and their religious neighbors. A teen raised by his eccentric gay father, a Turkish immigrant, finds his life fractured by violence. A fictionalized Coretta Scott King, surveilled and harassed by the FBI, considers the costs of her life with her husband.

    Here Is What You Do is a bravura, far-ranging collection, its stories linked by sorrow and latent hope; each one drills toward his characters' darkest emotional centers. In muscularly robust prose, with an unfailing eye for human drives and frailties, Chris Dennis captures the raw need, desire, cruelty of characters trying to connect with, and consume, each other.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateJun 4, 2019
    ISBN9781684418503
    Here Is What You Do: Stories

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