![]() ![]() predicaments that look and feel all too much like real life. Gains real emotional heft despite the often absurd predicaments she finds herself in, Three of these stories involve a beleaguered wife named Cheryl whose life What sets them apart are Malone's protagonists:ĭark, troubled women unafraid to puncture the pieties or to confront the void. They tap a long tradition of American humorists stretching from Mark Twain ![]() With Chekhov they share both compassion and brevity they share with Carver andīeattie a confidence in the unforced sentiment of unadorned prose Īnd in their matter-of-fact humor, which is often laugh-out-loud funny, In Margaret Malone's People Like You constantly beguile and surprise. ![]() "In plainspoken American speech, with great delicacy and wit, the nine stories The 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist citation ![]()
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