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<p><p>following <i>the Missing Person</i>, Her Highly Praised Debut&#8212;&#8220;a Seriously Entertaining And Probing Novel,&#8221; Wrote <i>the Washington Post Book World</i>&#8212;alix Ohlin Gives Us A Collection Of Stories That Demonstrates Her Impressive Range.<br><br>in Their Various Locales, From Montreal (where A Prosthetic Leg Casts A Furious Spell On Its Beholders) To The Southwest (where A Soviet-era Exchange Student Changes A Family&#8217;s Dynamic Forever), The Characters In <i>babylon </i>are Coming To Terms With Life&#8217;s Epiphanies, For Good Or Ill. They Range From The Very Young Who, Confronted With Their Parents&#8217; Limitations, Discover Their Own Resolve, To Those Facing Middle Age And Its Particular Indignities, No Less Determined To Assert Themselves And Shape Their Destinies. A Tenacious Eight-year-old Practices Piano On Paper Keys; An Expectant Mother, Settling Into An Idyllic Farmhouse, Discovers The Tragic Story Of Its Previous, Rightful Inhabitants; And A Fictional Haunted Hospital Becomes An Obsession For A Ghostwriter Grappling With Her Empty Nest. <br><br>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;in Stories At Once Clear-eyed And Compassionate, Br

Author

Ohlin, Alix

Publisher

Vintage Contemporaries

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400031399

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories