The State We're In: Maine Stories

The State We're In: Maine Stories

A magnificent new collection of linked stories from a multiple prize-winning master of the short form. The State Weâ€™re In, Ann Beattieâ€™s first collection of new stories in a decade, is about how we live in the places we have chosenâ€”or have been chosen by. It is about the stories we tell our families, our friends, and ourselves; the truths we may or may not see; how our affinities unite or repel us; and where we look for love.

Told through the voices of vivid and engaging women of all ages, The State Weâ€™re In explores their doubts and desires and reveals the unexpected moments and glancing epiphanies of daily life. Some of Beattieâ€™s idiosyncratic and compelling characters have arrived in the coastal state by accident, while others are trying to escape. The collection is woven around Jocelyn, a wry, disaffected teenager living with her aunt and uncle for the summer, forging new friendships, avoiding her motherâ€™s calls, taking writing classes, and encountering mortality for the first time. As in life, the narratives of other characters interrupt Jocelynâ€™s, sometimes challenging and sometimes embellishing her view.

Riveting, witty, sly, and bold, these stories describe a state of mind, a manner of being. A Beattie story, says Margaret Atwood, is â€œlike a fresh bulletin from the front: we snatch it up, eager to know whatâ€™s happening out there on the edge of that shifting and dubious no-manâ€™s-land known as interpersonal relations.â€ Beattieâ€™s sentences, her insights, and her inimitable voice are mesmerizing.
Country USA
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-08-11
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-08-11
Format	Kindle eBook