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Best Books of 2011, San Francisco Chronicle The Millions ' A Year in Reading pick Eleven women confront dramas both everyday and outlandish in Caitlin Horrocks' This Is Not Your City . In stories as darkly comic as they are unflinching, people isolated by geography, emotion, or circumstance cut imperfect paths to peace—they have no other choice. A Russian mail-order bride in Finland is rendered silent by her dislocation and loss of language, the mother of a severely disabled boy writes him postcards he'll never read on a cruise ship held hostage by pirates, and an Iowa actuary wanders among the reincarnations of those she's known in her 127 lives. Horrocks' women find no simple escapes, and their acts of faith and acts of imagination in making do are as shrewd as they are surprising. Review ". . .impressively sharp" and "appealingly rugged-hearted" —Robin Romm, The New York Times "HorrocksвЂTMs stories, many of which take place in frozen climates—from Finland to upstate Michigan, where she now lives—have the slightly muffled quality of a landscape beneath snow: Their emotional payoff comes gradually. I was moved to tears more than once reading this collection." —Ruth

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Author

Horrocks, Caitlin

Publisher

Sarabande Books

Published

2011

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (857 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14