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Home Remedies : Stories by Angela Pneuman is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

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“Darkly hilarious” short stories by the acclaimed author of Lay It on My Heart (San Francisco Chronicle). Set in the Bible Belt and featuring young women whose passions and emotions are often at war with the strict demands of their religious backgrounds, these stories of friendships, families, and fundamentalists mark the debut of a remarkable new literary talent. “In these eight carefully wrought stories, set mostly in Kentucky, an exorcism is performed in the basement of a Methodist church, a teen-ager becomes convinced that she is ‘history's second pregnant virgin,'a divorced father returns from a trip to Jerusalem under the impression that he is a prophet, and an elderly churchwoman performs home surgeries with a bottle of Jim Beam and an ice pick.... Pneuman shrewdly probes the dark underside of idealized emotions like faith, frequently employing adolescent narrators to reveal adults'hypocrisy.” —The New Yorker “Not the kind of girls you'd expect to meet in the evangelical Christian communities that Pneuman brings to life. Her girls dance and swear, drink and lie; they deflower each other with cucumbers and threaten their mothers with golf clubs. Pneuman... offers a clear-eyed

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Author

Angela Pneuman

Publisher

Mariner Books

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780156030755

Category

religious

Subjects

Short Stories, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.74 / 5 (79 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14