Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Biography, Literature & Literary studies

SO MUCH A PART OF YOU

Polly Dugan

Stories

Centered on two women with a common boyfriend, these are stories about women in their 20s and 30s navigating love, destiny, loss, and choice.

Imbued with discrete expectations and fears, these linked stories revolve around Anna Riley and Anne Cavanaugh, two women with a common lover. While following the lives of Anna and Anne, and revisiting familiar characters, friendships are tested and family secrets revealed. From the Depression to the present, the emotional and moral burdens of alcoholism, abortion, infidelity, and the losses of friends, parents and children are seamlessly woven together in Dugan's beautiful and powerful writing.

Polly Dugan lives in Portland, works at Powells, and is a reader at Tin House magazine. She attended the Tin House Writers Workshop for the past three years where she worked with Joy Williams, Steve Almond, Elisa Schappell and Meg Storey. Dugan's first published story, "A Matter of Time," was Line Zero's Spring 2012 Literary Contest Winner (June 2012)

Available products
Book Published 2014-06-01 by Little Brown
Book Published 2014-06-01 by Little Brown

Comments

"The ten stories in this collection are beautiful and connect in unexpected ways-but underneath the beauty, the stories hum with electricity that is as unpredictable as a downed power line, as dangerous as the third rail, and I read with my breath held, and my heart in my throat. These are the best kind of stories-dark and tender and sharp."

"Polly Dugan's stories read like whispered secrets. With their quiet drama, their nuanced internal conflicts, their characters full of longing, they immerse us in the messy mysteries of ordinary lives. But their vision is clear-headed and generous: they show us that even our briefest connections, our smallest actions, our most private thoughts can have great weight and consequence."

"There's a rawness to Polly Dugan's stories that lure you in and won't let go. The settings may be every day, but So Much a Part of You lingers in the imagination."