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Things that Cannot Be Tamed

Name: Things that Cannot Be Tamed
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Khristian Mecom, Lidia Yuknavitch (Introduction)

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Things That Cannot Be Tamed explores three generations of women as they survive, struggle, and thrive in a harsh and beautiful Alaskan landscape. These stories wonder and interrogate — does the place you’re from intrinsically define you? Or is that a choice you make? How much of our lives are shaped by those who have come before us? How do we impact what is beyond us?

In Things That Cannot Be Tamed, Mecom weaves three tales into a saga of womanhood, self-determination, and the magic of stretching into the unknown: Ida, an aging and sensible pilot who feels most sure in the sky; Ruth, a restless mother reluctant to believe in others, in herself; and Arna, a woman who trusts the land like it is her body. In these stories, love and survival circle each other sharply within a landscape of the fantastic and magical — Mecom welcomes us to her hearth and illuminates truths believed in the bones.

GenresShort Stories

122 pages, Paperback

First published December 28, 2018