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At twelve years old, Claire Barker developed a massive crush on her best friend Sarah's older sister--the handsome, butch Alex Williams. Now twenty-seven and a successful entrepreneur, Claire's interest hasn't waned--despite Alex's fashion photography career keeping her overseas for months at a time. When Alex moves home unexpectedly, she and Claire end up enjoying a surprise, wine-fueled reunion that alters their relationship forever. Are Claire's dreams about to come true, or will real life prove to be more complicated than her fantasies?

Meghan Kenny's debut collection, Love Is No Small Thing, gives readers an assembly of keenly drawn characters each navigating the world looking for an understanding of love in its many forms and complexities--be it romantic, parental, elusive, or eternal. A father may teach his teenage son "Hearts break easy," but as Kenny's characters discover, knowing an important truth about love is no substitute for experiencing it.

In the title story, a woman learns of her boyfriend's infidelity on Halloween night and contemplates lost years, concealments, and the difficulty...

A master of the personal essay candidly explores love, death, and the counterfeit rituals of American life in this "brave, funny compendium" (Slate)

Nearly fifteen years after her debut collection, My Misspent Youth, captured the ambitions and anxieties of a generation, Meghan Daum returns to the personal essay with The Unspeakable, a powerful collection of ten new works. Where her previous collection explores what it is to be a struggling twenty-something urban dweller with an overdrawn bank account and oversized ambition, The Unspeakable contends...

Milliardär Huxley ist attraktiv, erfolgreich und kann sich kaufen, was er möchte. Nur eines fehlt ihm: eine Verlobte. Und dabei wäre es für seinen neuesten Business Deal so unglaublich wichtig, eine Frau an seiner Seite zu haben. Doch wie soll er das anstellen? Durch Zufall trifft er bei einem Spaziergang auf Lottie. Und es könnte nicht besser laufen: Lottie lässt sich auf seinen Vorschlag ein und schlüpft in die Rolle seiner Fake-Verlobten - mit allem was dazu gehört: Sie wohnen zusammen, gehen auf Dates, spielen das glücklich verliebte Traumpaar, und sie begleitet ihn bei...

When The Flip Wilson Show debuted on NBC in 1970, the major legislative victories of the civil rights movement had been won, but the broadcast airwaves were far from integrated. A handful of shows featured black leading characters, but none had quite reached the top spot of the Nielsen ratings. By 1971, however, Wilson's "old-fashioned" comedy-variety hour was a bonafide hit, and in January 1972 Time magazine declared Wilson "TV's First Black Superstar." In this volume, Meghan Sutherland examines how The Flip Wilson Show succeeded in the volatile racial and economic milieu of the early...