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»You know what you don’t want. But what you do want has slipped your mind.«
Stella, Judith, Wanda and the other heroines in this book are no longer young, but they’re not yet old either. Having grown into their roles as girlfriends, lovers, grown-up daughters or older mothers, they come to a sudden realisation: Their respective scheme of life is proving increasingly fragile. And so an encounter with a best friend from school days, a fight with a catcaller or a visit to the home of a recently deceased mother-in-law become moments in which they leave their well-trodden paths. With subtlety, humour and unflinching honesty, Julia Wolf serves up her first volume of short stories of eleven women who refuse to accept the status quo.
- As humorous as Miranda July, as unfussy as Jane Campbell, as stark as Joy Williams
- The author was nominated for the German Book Prize for her novel ‘Walter Nowak Won’t Get Up’, and for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for her translation of Samantha Harvey’s ‘Orbital’
Julia Wolf is an author and translator living in Berlin. As a member of Liquid Center, she published the collective novel ‘We’re Coming’ in 2024.
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