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Inheritance: And Other Stories
In this deeply sardonic debut collection of short stories, Jarod Powell masterfully intertwines the bitter traumas and sweet victories of humanity with a hypnotic style, subversive wit, and a powerful, concrete narrative.
A hopelessly dysfunctional family holds a formal debate and fights through the cliché, an agoraphobic teenager finds the gumption to enter the world he observes in a single moment of guttural rage, a homeless man harasses a stranger with his visions of the San Fernando Valley as The Garden of Eden, and in the title story, a high school turns into a Biblical village square when a drug overdose turns a nobody into a mythical being.
A hopelessly dysfunctional family holds a formal debate and fights through the cliché, an agoraphobic teenager finds the gumption to enter the world he observes in a single moment of guttural rage, a homeless man harasses a stranger with his visions of the San Fernando Valley as The Garden of Eden, and in the title story, a high school turns into a Biblical village square when a drug overdose turns a nobody into a mythical being.
- GenresShort Stories
64 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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December 7, 2016
Jarod Powell's first book. You can see how much he's progressed as a writer since then, but it's still a very satisfying read.
Most of the book deals with dysfunctional families, and most of it is hilarious, David Sedaris-style.
Most of the book deals with dysfunctional families, and most of it is hilarious, David Sedaris-style.
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