Things to make and break
By: May-Lan Tan
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781566895279
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "In these eleven stories, Tan explores the idea that every relationship between two people is actually a relationship between three people: each relationship encompasses and relies upon an interstitial presence--another person, a former self, a future lover. Within this loose thematic constraint, a series of related worlds unspool. Teenagers in a band betray each other. A woman gets so obsessed with photos of her boyfriend's ex that she eventually contrives a way to meet her. A woman has a relationship with her sister's husband's brother that darkly, secretly parallels her sister's happy marriage. Each character is a mirror, double or proxy of someone else, hinting at the possibility that we seek out the same person in different bodies and churn through cycles of self-invention/-annihilation." --
Notes: "First published in the United Kingdom by CB Editions in 2014" -- ECIP galley.
Table of contents: title: Legendary; title: Date night; title: 101; title: Julia K.; title: DD-MM-YY; title: Laurens; title: Candy glass; title: Ghosts; title: New Jersey; title: Transformer; title: Would like to meet.