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"We build worlds for ourselves wherever we go," creates Ann Beattie. The Express We're In, her spectacular new collection of linked stories, is about how exactly we live in the places we have chosen - or been chosen by. It's about the stories we tell our individuals, our friends, and ourselves, the truths we may or may not see, how our affinities unite or repel us, and where we look for love. Several stories are set in Maine, but The Express We're In is approximately more than physical location and certainly is not really a picture postcard of the seaside state. Some individuals have arrived unintentionally; others want to get out. The collection starts, closes, which is interlaced with stories that give attention to Jocelyn, a wryly disaffected teen living with her aunt and uncle while attending summer school. Just as life, the narratives of other individuals interrupt Jocelyn's, sometimes challenging, sometimes embellishing her view. Riveting, witty, sly, idiosyncratic, and vivid, these stories illustrate circumstances of mind, a manner to be - now. A Beattie report, says Margaret Atwood, is, "like a fresh bulletin from the front: we snatch it up, eager to know what's happening out there on the advantage of this shifting and dubious no-man's-land known as interpersonal relations." The Express We're In is a fearless exploration of modern life by an excellent copy writer whose fiction startles as it illuminates.

Category: Short Stories