TY  - BOOK
AU  - Polek,Nicolette
TI  - Imaginary museums: stories 
SN  - 9781593765866
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Soft Skull Press
KW  - Short stories, American
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Short stories
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Flash fiction
N1  - Miniature catastrophes -- The rope barrier -- Coed picnic -- Winners -- Grocery story -- Garden party -- Arranged marriage -- American interiors -- A house for living -- The dance -- The nearby place -- Invitation -- Doorstop -- Imaginary museums -- Your shining trapdoor -- Slovak sceneries -- Sabbatical -- Flowers for Angelika -- Thursdays at Waterhouse -- The seamstress -- How to eat well -- Owls fall in Nitra -- Library of lost things -- Girls I no longer know -- Guest books -- Field notes -- Rest in pieces -- Pets I no longer have -- The squinter's watch -- Love language
N2  - "In this collection of compact fictions, Nicolette Polek transports us to a gently unsettling realm inhabited by disheveled landlords, a fugitive bride, a seamstress who forgets what people look like, and two rival falconers from neighboring towns. They find themselves in bathhouses, sports bars, grocery stores, and forests in search of exits, pink tennis balls, licorice, and independence. Yet all of her beautifully strange characters are possessed by a familiar and human longing for connection: to their homes, families, God, and themselves"--
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