A Postcard for Annie
A Postcard for Annie
Jessen, Ida
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Condition: New, UPC: 9781953861221, Publication Date: Wed, June 1, 2022, Type: Paperback ,
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5 "Jessen's writing is graceful, unhurried, convincing." --Kirkus Reviews

Ida Jessen follows the inner lives of several women on the brink, or the sidelines, of catastrophe in this prize-winning collection of stories

Written with the same narrative generosity, the same belief in the dignity and voice of her characters as Marilynne Robinson

From the winner of the Lifetime Award from the Danish Arts Foundation and the 2017 Critics' Choice Award, Ida Jessen's A Postcard for Annie traces the tangled emotional lives of women facing moral dilemmas.

A young woman witnesses a terrible accident with unexpected consequences, a mother sits with her unconscious son in a hospital room, a pair of sisters remember their mother's hands braiding their hair.

In seaside tourist villages and in snowy cities, turbulence destabilizes composed lives, whether through outright violence between strangers or habitual domination between loved ones.

Jessen fills each story with bracing passages that teem with the living world, only to become concentrated in the unfixed, vacillating matter of a human psyche caught between silence and speech, paralysis and action.

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