A short story collection full of powerful prose and
remarkably genuine characters from the author of The Last Days of California
The collection of stories, produced by Andi
Arndt, is performed by the author along with a stunning cast of Nashville
stars, including Janis Ian, Mary Gauthier, Telisha Williams, Amy Speace, and
Louise Mosrie.
The characters in Mary Miller’s debut short story collection,
Big World, are at once autonomous and
lonesome, possessing both a longing to connect with those around them and a
cynicism regarding their ability to do so, whether they’re holed up in a motel
room in Pigeon Forge with an air-gun-shooting boyfriend, as in “Fast
Trains,” or navigating the rooms of their house with their dad after their
mother’s death as in “Leak.” Mary Miller’s writing is
unapologetically honest and efficient, and the gut-wrenching directness of her
prose is reminiscent of Mary Gaitskill and Courtney Eldridge, if Gaitskill’s
and Eldridge’s stories were set in the South and reeked of spilled beer and
cigarette smoke.
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