Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape (McSweeney’s, 2007)
Los Angeles Times Critics' Choice • Readings Best Books of 2007
Included in 145 Stories in a Small Box with How the Water Feels to the Fishes (Dave Eggers) and Minor Robberies (Deb Olin Unferth).
Praise
“A risky, ruminative, fiercely inward-dwelling volume.” (Elle)… “Manguso condenses several dozen pages of Proust’s thoughts on subjectivity and the weirdness of waking into a paragraph about some guys named Mike and Nick.” (Bookslut)… “Manguso recounts minute scenes of quiet revelation, tragicomic devastation, and internal humiliation, with a deceptively lethargic sense of urgency.” (We Love You So)… “Manguso writes to the heart of a matter fiercely. Her book is full of aphoristic gut-checks.” (Barnes & Noble Review)
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