Book description
An “acute portrayal of failed relationships and struggles to transcend social norms,”―New York Times Book Review (editor's choice)
“Readers can detect deadpan realism influences of Lorrie Moore and the feminism of Angela Carter in these stories, but the work is distinctly and originally Cohen's voice. . . . [The] plots…
Why read it?
1 author picked Adults and Other Children as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Miriam Cohen gives us a series of stories loosely linked by recurring characters and contiguous themes.
In the world of these stories, childhood is bewildering and dreadful, while adults fail grotesquely to be adults—some never manage to stop being children, yet they never quite lose our sympathy.
If you love modern literary fiction, you will take as much delight in Cohen’s ruthless humour as you do in the exquisite prose and razor-keen insights which lurk on every page.
From Dale's list on little stories that link to tell big stories.
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