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Reading an Audra Kerr Brown story is like biting into an exquisite and exotic amuse-bouche-so much texture and flavor, each sentence serving up something fresh and different and surprising. "We needed milk, so we pawned my sister's leg," reads the first sentence of the opening story and just like that, that quickly, we're pulled into a world in which a woman grieving a miscarriage falls into love with a lightbulb, where a pack of Girl Scouts find a dead baby while foraging for mushrooms and a dead brother reappears in a beloved leather jacket.. Anything can happen and often does, and all of it is delicious. -Sarah Freligh, author of We