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A nameless young woman starts her freshman year of college with one goal in mind: survival. Newly transplanted to the big city of Chicago, she is one of the rare few to leave her small working class town in Iowa, let alone for a prestigious university. She is not driven by academic ambition, nor is she a social butterfly. Her true gift is an ability to understand the needs of others, and to reflect back the version of themselves they wish to s...

Following the suicide of her mother, 15-year-old Alice begins to canvass the terrain of her new life with uncertainty and longing. This beautiful, wistful tale is from the award-winning author of "Pears on a Willow Tree.

For fans of the "The Joy Luck Club" and "Charms for the Easy Life" comes the story of "a sweating, crying, shouting, laughing group of women struggling to preserve and pass on that most precious of old family recipes: love" ("Washington Post").

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Winner of the 2015 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, This Angel on My Chest is a collection of unconventionally linked stories, each about a different young woman whose husband dies suddenly and unexpectedly. Ranging from traditional stories to lists, a quiz, a YouTube link, and even a lecture about creative writing, the stories grasp to put into words the ways in which we all cope with unspeakable loss.