TY - BOOK AU - Yuknavitch,Lidia TI - Verge: stories SN - 9780525534877 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - Riverhead Books KW - Lust KW - Fiction KW - Anger KW - Women KW - Drug traffic KW - Self-mutilation KW - Bullying KW - Short stories KW - lcgft N1 - The pull -- The organ runner -- Street walker -- The garden of earthly delights -- A woman object (exploding) -- Cosmos -- Second language -- A woman signifying -- The eleventh commandment -- Drive through -- Cusp -- A woman refusing -- Shooting -- A woman apologizing -- Mechanics -- Second coming -- Beatings -- A woman going out -- How to lose an I -- Two girls N2 - "A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction.Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer of rare insight into the jagged boundaries between pain and survival. Her characters are scarred by the unchecked hungers of others and themselves, yet determined to find salvation within lives that can feel beyond their control."--Publisher description ER -