false <![CDATA[People I Wanted to Be]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172700426m/209371.jpg 209371 3 Gina Ochsner's award-winning, highly acclaimed stories have appeared in such publications as The New Yorker and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. In her eagerly anticipated new collection, Ochsner deftly examines the harrowing moments after a life or love slips away and discovers that the human heart can be large enough for anything. A Russian couple come to accept their infertility by bidding farewell tot he ghosts of the children they never had. A disgruntled husband buys a talking bird that he hopes will restore love to his marriage. Twin sisters learn to prepare bodies for burial in their Hungarian parents' funeral home, but when faced with a death of their own, they must learn to prepare the soul. Glowing with warmth and sparkling with imagination, these stories are rendered with a deep understanding of human resilience as well as an unerring belief in small, daily miracles. 202639 11 5 2005 People I Wanted to Be total:40|5:7|4:18|3:9|2:5|1:1| 40 145 73 10 2 0 false false Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 23:12:27 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 00:04:52 -0800 2008 The Necessary Grace to Fall, I have not read, but apparently it won the Oregon Book Award.

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Her characters are Finnish, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Czech. Little miracles follow them around like bees.

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RATING: 4/B
GENRE/PUB DATE/# OF PGS: Short Stories/2005/204

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