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    <![CDATA[Famous Fathers and Other Stories]]>
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    <![CDATA[A gracefully disconcerting collection of stories by the winner of the 2005 Narrative Prize. Wavering between fidelity and freedom, the women in this sparkling debut collection deal with emotional damage and unhealed heartbreak by plunging into unusual, often bizarre, relationships. In Pia Z. EhrhardtÂ¹s stories, adultery and impropriety become disquietingly mundane.  Mothers expect daughters to be complicit in their love affairs, children seek shelter in families that arenÂ¹t their own, fathers court their daughters, a couple enters into a marriage that lasts thirty days a year, and a young girl takes to the road with the simple guy who bags groceries at Piggly Wiggly while her mother imagines her safely at school. Beautifully restrained and shot through with tenderness, Famous Fathers and Other Stories establishes Ehrhardt as both a leading practitioner of the short story and an empathetic interpreter of the lives of wounded people who-instead of asking for what they want-take what is offered.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't write long reviews of books by living authors, because I don't want to interpose my personal reaction into the evolving relationship between an author and her readers.<br/><br/>So I shall simply echo a character in one of these short stories, a character who expresses herself by quoting fa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3629188">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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