This is Not Your City - Caitlin Horrocks

Category: General Fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Short Story Collection

Written by Caitlin Horrocks
Read by Lindsey Dorcus
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged

Eleven women confront dramas both everyday and outlandish in Caitlin Horrocks’ This Is Not Your City. In stories as darkly comic as they are unflinching, people isolated by geography, emotion, or circumstance cut imperfect paths to peace—they have no other choice. A Russian mail-order bride in Finland is rendered silent by her dislocation and loss of language, the mother of a severely disabled boy writes him postcards he’ll never read on a cruise ship held hostage by pirates, and an Iowa actuary wanders among the reincarnations of those she’s known in her 127 lives. Horrocks’ women find no simple escapes, and their acts of faith and acts of imagination in making do are as shrewd as they are surprising.

July 27 2021
6 hrs and 6 mins