It’s Not Going to Kill You, and Other Stories
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Book
Description
“It’s not going to kill you,” a mother tells her protesting child. And maybe it won’t, but that doesn’t mean anyone is getting off scot-free. A no-man's-land between exoneration and repercussion, this is the place where the people in Erin Flanagan’s stories live: in events as big as 9/11 and as small as an infatuation with a dog groomer, as meaningful as the birth of a baby and as senseless as a car crash, as unique as a 1980s air band living out dreams for a city in decline and as common as an afterschool job that sucks. These stories accept that we all make mistakes, but it’s what we do in the aftermath that defines us.
Sharp-witted and tenderhearted, these are stories in which readers will find people they recognize but never really knew until now.
Publication Date
2013
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
City
Lincoln
Keywords
fiction, short stories
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | English Language and Literature | Fiction
Repository Citation
Flanagan , E. (2013). It’s Not Going to Kill You, and Other Stories. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.
Identifier/URL
0803246994
