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SPOILERS: Wow, so, it’s been a long time since I’ve been this affected by a book. I spent the first two-thirds feeling deeply for Isabel, as Yael pulls back the layers of her life, revealing bit by bit the circumstances of her upbringing, her traumas, ...more |
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With this marvelous debut collection of fiction, Tim Blackett joins a tradition of writers who explore human psychology, unflinchingly, through the short-fiction form: Lorrie Moore, Lydia Davis, Grace Paley. In this work of interconnected stories, ch ...more | |
“Why are the smartest people the most oblivious, and why do they get away with it?”
― Orphans of Canland
― Orphans of Canland
“I let my head slide down the front of his shoulder. There's still meat on it, but I can feel the bone too, against my cheek. I put my nose in his armpit and smell him. It's the same as he's always smelled--all his toil, his departures, his violence, his shame at failing with his talents to convince Michael to stay, his sorrow over Sybil and whatever else, and all the anger he hates to have, the things he wants to change, things he's never told me and doesn't need to, but could and I'd love him anyway, everything exhaled by him and inhaled by me through his sour scent.”
― Orphans of Canland
― Orphans of Canland
“Also, I guess it's possible for memories to unexpectedly come back to you. In this way, the past has a life of its own. I am a container for the past, and like a microbiome, it is a whole universe inside you.”
― Orphans of Canland
― Orphans of Canland

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