num_pages: 160
description: In her first full-length story collection, author A. Manette Ansay explores the rural Midwest landscape and the people who inhabit it: ordinary folk with extraordinary inner lives, struggling to make sense of the isolated, sometimes painful, and often intensely religious worlds in which they live. Her are 15 haunting and exquisitely written tales that offer a rare and unforgettable glimpse into the complexities of being human and being alive.
language: English
title: Read This and Tell Me What It Says
titlecomplete: Read This and Tell Me What It Says
genres: Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 140
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction
publisher: Harper Perennial