Miranda July
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"Award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection. In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure the world. Her characters engage awkwardly -- they are sometimes too remote, sometimes too intimate. With great compassion and generosity, July...
2) The future
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The story of a thirtysomething couple whose decision to adopt a cat changes their perspective on life, literally altering the course of time and testing their faith in themselves and each other.
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"February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth," the president...
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A lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggle to connect in this unique take on contemporary life.
Award-winning and critically-acclaimed, "Me and You and Everyone We Know" is a poetic and penetrating look at how everyday people struggle to connect with one another in an isolating modern world. Christine Jesperson is a struggling artist and cab driver who uses her talents and imagination to draw her dreams and objects of desire...