Fiction. "With all the innovation of the best surrealism, and the memorable, conflicted characters of gritty realism, THE LONGEST PREGNANCY is that rare book that defies categorization and genre, and instead takes the reader on a journey full of beautiful surprises. Melissa Fraterrigo is a compelling, fresh new voice who can, in the same instant, blow your mind and break your heart. A truly unique collection"--Gina Frangello.

The Longest Pregnancy

Literature & Fiction

Fraterrigo, Melissa

Contemporary

Livingston Press

Winner First Annual Tartt Short Fiction Award! ?With all the innovation of the best surrealism, and the memorable, conflicted characters of gritty realism, The Longest Pregnancy defies categorization and genre, and instead takes the reader on a journey full of beautiful surprises. A truly unique collection? ?Gina Frangello, My Sister's Continent

Livingston Pr

2017 Finalist for Literary Fiction, Foreword Reviews Best Fiction Books of 2017 by Chicago Review of Books One of 19 Books You Should Read This September by Chicago Review of Books The small plains town of Ingleside, Nebraska, is populated by down-on-their-luck ranchers and new money, ghosts and seers, drugs and greed, the haves and the have-nots. Lives ripple through each other to surprising effect, though the connections fluctuate between divisive gulfs and the most intimate closeness. At the center of this novel is the story of Teensy and his daughter, Luann, who face the loss of their land even as they mourn the death of Luann’s mother. On the other end of the spectrum, some townspeople find enormous wealth when developers begin buying up acreages. When Glory Days—an amusement park—is erected, past and present collide, the attachment to the land is fully severed, and the invading culture ushers in even darker times. In Glory Days Melissa Fraterrigo combines gritty realism with magical elements to paint an arrestingly stark portrait of the painful transitions of twenty-first-century, small-town America. She interweaves a slate of gripping characters to reveal deeper truths about our times and how the new landscape of one culture can be the ruin of another. Read the author's discussion guide.

Glory Days (Flyover Fiction)

Literary

University Of Nebraska Press

The Perils of Girlhood: A Memoir in Essays (American Lives)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

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