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No Pets
Fiction. Short Stories. Jim Daniels' NO PETS brings us sad, acutely-observed stories of people who know in their bones that the American Dream does not apply to them -- John Sayles. With swift, deft strokes, in spare, precise language, Jim Daniels can break your heart. He captures the tragic -- maybe tragi-comic -- lives of people whom I long to reach out to, in their blue collar cities, and pluck them from the paths they seem destined to walk ... I carry these characters around with me, in my head and heart, and think of them at unexpected moments of the day -- Lewis Nordan.
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First published January 1, 1999
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October 20, 2023
Daniels' stories are just as spare and haunting as his poems, with working-class, plain-spoken characters trying to make their lives better. I feel like Daniels knows me and the people I grew up around; I feel like he is transcribing their thoughts and dreams. There are so many things unsaid in these stories, yet you feel them down to your bones.
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