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Twelve women confront the mounting existential terrors of modernity--climate change, unbridled capitalism and greed, an entertainment industry that will go to surreal lengths to stay relevant--in this debut story collection set in a slightly off-kilter version of reality.A woman's limbs disappear into "the cloud" during wildfire-induced power outages. A lonely…

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