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050	0	0	_aPS3623.H94 _bY68 2016
082	1		_aFIC WHY _2
100	1		_aWhyman, Paula
245	1	0	_aYou may see a stranger : _bstories _c/ Paula Whyman.
260			_aEvanston, IL _b: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press _c, 2016
300			_a202 p. _c; 23 cm.
505	0		_aDriver's education -- Drosophila -- You may see a stranger -- Dubrovnik 1989 -- Transfigured night -- Jump -- Bad side in -- Threat potential -- Self report -- Just sex.
520			_aMiranda Weber is a hot mess. In Paula Whyman's debut collection of stories, we find her hoarding duct tape to ward off terrorists, stumbling into a drug run with a crackhead, and - frequently - enduring the bad behavior of men. A drivers' education class pulsing with racial tension is the unexpected context of her sexual awakening. As she comes of age, and in the three decades that follow, the potential for violence always hovers nearby. She's haunted by the fate of her disabled sister and - thanks to the crack cocaine epidemic of the '80s, the wars in the Middle East, and sniper attacks--the threat of crime and terror in her hometown of Washington, D.C. Miranda can be lascivious, sardonic, and maddeningly self-destructive, but, no matter what befalls her, she never loses her sharp wit or powers of observation, which illuminate both her own life and her strange, unsettling times.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aDrugs _v--Fiction
650		4	_aWar -- _vFiction
651		4	_aWashington, D.C. _x-Fiction
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