Jennifer Egan

Eleven short stories explore a world of travel and a quest for self-identity, journeying from Bora Bora to Manhattan as the characters seek--and sometimes find--a transformation in their lives

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Emerald City

Chrystal Giordano

Eleven stories on the vagaries of life. In Why China? a successful stockbroker yearns for the days when he was poor, in Passing the Hat, a wife observing a woman sleep around with men, is shocked to discover her own husband was one of them, while The Watch Trick compares the lives of two army friends, one who settled down, the other who didn't. By the author of The Invisible Circus.

Emerald City Stories

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