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Richard Russo says, \"the first thing you notice reading the stories in Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events is the author's extraordinary range--of expertise, technique, imagination and wit. 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Some are stalled in the present, alone or lonely, bemused by mortality and disappointment. Some move toward the future heartened by what they learn from those around them - a tattoo artist, an invented medicine man, zoo animals, strangers, fellow outsiders. Deftly rendered, these stories abound with oddness and grace. In \"\"Tattooizm,\"\" included in \"\"The Best American Short Stories 2006\"\", a young woman struggles with a promise that her boyfriend is determined to make her keep. In the Nelson Algren Award-winning \"\"Space,\"\" a reluctantly undertaken errand forces a young man to finally confront the death of his mother. And in \"\"The Medicine Man,\"\" hailed by the Times (U.K.) as \"\"perfectly pitched and perfectly written,\"\" a man recounts his manic attachment to his sister. Moffett's closely observed stories are candid and complex, funny and moving. The world of \"\"Permanent Visitors\"\" is an idiosyncratic and generous one, its inhabitants searching for constancy in a place crowded with contradiction.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50125672546577,"sku":"CIN0877459924G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50238387290385,"sku":"CIN0877459924VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0877459924.jpg?v=1751108260"},{"product_id":"only-son-book-kevin-moffett-9781963270303","title":"Only Son","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFlorida, 1982. A nine-year-old watches as his dead father's possessions are hauled away: his clothes and tools, his faux-leather recliner. His sensei says it's a perfect time to turn his weaknesses into weapons. His PE teacher says he runs like a pregnant ostrich. His mother takes out a personal ad. Everyone is trying to teach him a lesson but he is, it seems, a slow learner. Meanwhile, with each passing day, his father recedes, growing less and less plausible, almost a myth.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Twenty-five years later, adrift in suburban Southern California, married with a son of his own, he's still trying to sort through the fragments of his father's death while imparting his own sketchy education onto his son. \u003ci\u003eWhich snakes are poisonous\u003c\/i\u003e? \u003ci\u003eWhy did I tell him that Candyland is based on a true story? 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