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Our Strangers
Our Strangers | Lydia Davis
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A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose New Yorker Lydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of daily life and pinning them for inspection. In Our Strangers, conversations are overheard and misheard, a special delivery letter is mistaken for a rare white butterfly, toddlers learning to speak identify a ping-pong ball as an egg and mumbled remarks betray a marriage. In the glow of Daviss keen noticing, strangers can become like family and family like strangers. Our Strangers is a fascinating collection that confirms the genius of a writer whose every attention is transformative.
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Our Strangers | Lydia Davis
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Lydia Davis is lauded as a US treasure and a master of short stories, but I think she is an author who inspires either adoration or rage - I can‘t see there is any middle ground. Her short stories are *short* - indeed sometimes they are only 2 lines. Can these still be called short stories? However she is a master at calling attention to the unnoticed moments in life. These don‘t seem to linger in the memory but were enjoyable nibbles of prose.

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Leftcoastzen
Our Strangers | Lydia Davis
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#AboutABook #Published2023 couldn‘t wait to get it from Bookshop.org .Did I read it yet? Nope!

Eggs Looks good 👍🏼 4mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I do this all the time!! 4mo
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Leftcoastzen
Our Strangers | Lydia Davis
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#BookMail is the best mail! Lydia Davis decided that her new collection of short stories would not be available on the A word. a bookshop.org published title, their proceeds share with an independent bookstore you have selected, or indies in general. Bought Trust too. On & off about it ,finally decided yes ! Add it to #TBRMountain