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That May not Mean What You Think

Stories

AvElizabeth Crane

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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A visionary and profound new collection from innovative author Elizabeth CraneThroughout her body of work, Elizabeth Crane's literary vision has always been singular and innovative, twisting form and bending reality into new universes. Her latest collection, That May Not Mean What You Think, explores themes of aging and youth, gender and discrimination, and sex and love. In "Training Module," Crane takes the structure and protocol of workplace harassment prevention training and turns it on its head; "The Box" tells the story of a woman trying to recover from divorce with the help of a literal unicorn; and "The Youngs" follows a group of teenagers experiencing loss for the first time, clinging to the belief that they'll live forever. Across these delightfully weird and disarmingly truthful stories, American culture is refracted through humor and heart, asking readers to consider their complicity and to imagine new possibilities of participating in a better future.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-06-30
Mått:133 x 203 x 23 mm
Vikt:199 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:184
Förlag:Northwestern University Press
ISBN:9798899480195

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Elizabeth Crane is the author of the memoir This Story Will Change and six works of fiction, including the story collection Turf and the novel The History of Great Things. Her stories have been translated into several languages and have appeared in numerous publications, including Catapult, Electric Literature, and Literary Hub. Her work is performed regularly as part of NPR's Selected Shorts and has been adapted for film and stage, most notably with Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre. She teaches in the low-residency MFA program at the University of California, Riverside–Palm Desert.

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"Crane's stories remind us that solidarity is messy, memory is long, and the reckoning is far from over." —Booklist"Every story is a banger, what an absolute delight." —Samantha Irby, New York Times bestselling author of Quietly Hostile"Is there anything out in the vast world of letters quite like an Elizabeth Crane story? No, I don't think so. Sharp, witty, intense, heartbreaking, and funny, Lord, so funny. These stories are brimming with human heartache and could only have been the product of Betsy Crane's brilliant, beautiful mind." —Manuel Gonzales, author of The Regional Office Is Under Attack!"Reading this thrillingly inventive collection, two words come to mind: deep fun. Rare is the writer who can deliver it consistently, but in one story after another, Elizabeth Crane does just that, illuminating our moment with voices as formally and socially subversive as they are wildly entertaining." —Antoine Wilson, author of Mouth to Mouth

Innehållsförteckning

Training ModuleThe BoxThe YoungsPortrait of an Old LadyDream GuyThe Greatest Day of a Girl's LifeWe Had Been Heard OfWe Are All MiraclesThe Long TrialThat May Not Mean What You ThinkNemesesDudes, In TheorySenior Living for the UnknowablesThe Depressed BabyThe DataWhen Your Ex Sends You a Text (to say he likes Taylor Swift's new album)Nepo Babies, an Extinction StoryThe Language Police, Empath DivisionNotes from a Better Dream Than I Usually Have (feat. Chris Parnell)Acknowledgments