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Half-Lives

About Half-Lives

A playful debut short story collection imagining women's lives in a world free of social limitations.   Amid heightened restrictions about what women can and cannot do with their bodies, Lynn Schmeidler's debut short story collection, Half-Lives, is a humane, absurd, and timely collection of narratives centering on women's bodies and psyches. Playful and experimental, these sixteen stories explore girlhood, sexuality, motherhood, identity, and aging in a world where structures of societal norms, narrative, gender, and sometimes even physics do not apply. The protagonists grapple with the roles they choose and with those that are thrust upon them as they navigate their ever-evolving emotional lives. A woman lists her vagina on Airbnb, Sleeping Beauty is a yoga teacher who lies in state on the dais of her mother's studio, and a museum intern writes a confession of her affair in the form of a hijacked museum audio guide.  Half-Lives is the 2023 Rising Writer Prize winner, selected by Matt Bell.

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  • Language:
  • Unknown
  • ISBN:
  • 9781637680919
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 166
  • Published:
  • March 26, 2024
  • Dimensions:
  • 152x25x229 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 367 g.
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Expected delivery: December 5, 2024

Description of Half-Lives

A playful debut short story collection imagining women's lives in a world free of social limitations.   Amid heightened restrictions about what women can and cannot do with their bodies, Lynn Schmeidler's debut short story collection, Half-Lives, is a humane, absurd, and timely collection of narratives centering on women's bodies and psyches. Playful and experimental, these sixteen stories explore girlhood, sexuality, motherhood, identity, and aging in a world where structures of societal norms, narrative, gender, and sometimes even physics do not apply. The protagonists grapple with the roles they choose and with those that are thrust upon them as they navigate their ever-evolving emotional lives. A woman lists her vagina on Airbnb, Sleeping Beauty is a yoga teacher who lies in state on the dais of her mother's studio, and a museum intern writes a confession of her affair in the form of a hijacked museum audio guide.  Half-Lives is the 2023 Rising Writer Prize winner, selected by Matt Bell.

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