You May See a Stranger: Stories

Whyman, Paula

ISBN 10: 0810133539 / ISBN 13: 9780810133532

Published by TriQuarterly (edition 1), 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: You May See a Stranger: Stories
• Publisher: TriQuarterly (edition 1)
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810133539
• ISBN 13: 9780810133532
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

Miranda 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.
 

About the Author

PAULA WHYMAN has published stories in Ploughshares, McSweeney’s Quarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other literary journals. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. A native of Washington, D.C., she now lives in Maryland.