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A review by briandice
Love and Other Wounds: Stories by Jordan Harper
5.0
UPDATE!
I carelessly neglected to mention in February when I reviewed this fabulous collection of stories that I was reading an ARC - this book is now available and I can't recommend it enough. More Harper, please!
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It's ok if most of these stories are culled from Harper's earlier collection [b:American Death Songs|17162036|American Death Songs|Jordan Harper|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1356205476s/17162036.jpg|23587436]. If you missed that book you can catch up; if you've read ADS you can revisit stories that will make you feel like you're walking on legs recently broke and not set right.
I read the titular story aloud to my wife and made her cry. I read Lucy in the Pit before bed last night and made myself cry. I'm not here to tell that everything between the covers of this book is depressing, but I am here to say that all 16 stories play straight with their audience.
This collection will be availble for purchase in July 2015. Many thanks to friend Karen for sharing her galley copy with me. Sorry, karen not Karen. She may be all lowercase but she is all UPPERCLASS.
I carelessly neglected to mention in February when I reviewed this fabulous collection of stories that I was reading an ARC - this book is now available and I can't recommend it enough. More Harper, please!
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It's ok if most of these stories are culled from Harper's earlier collection [b:American Death Songs|17162036|American Death Songs|Jordan Harper|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1356205476s/17162036.jpg|23587436]. If you missed that book you can catch up; if you've read ADS you can revisit stories that will make you feel like you're walking on legs recently broke and not set right.
I read the titular story aloud to my wife and made her cry. I read Lucy in the Pit before bed last night and made myself cry. I'm not here to tell that everything between the covers of this book is depressing, but I am here to say that all 16 stories play straight with their audience.
This collection will be availble for purchase in July 2015. Many thanks to friend Karen for sharing her galley copy with me. Sorry, karen not Karen. She may be all lowercase but she is all UPPERCLASS.