Normal Rules Don’t Apply: Stories by Kate Atkinson
Literary Fiction | Speculative | Stories
This collection of eleven fabulous interconnected stories includes a queen who makes one too many promises; a man who bets on a horse who speaks to him; and a family who may have done-in its patriarch. All this against the backdrop of a world-changing event which inevitably, irrevocably, touches every life on the planet. Each story focuses on a character dealing not only with the emerging situation, but with the events already unwinding in their lives. Kate Atkinson draws these characters with such richness and honesty, they feel familiar: friends, coworkers, and family. Funny and tragic. If you enjoyed her novel Life after Life, you’ll enjoy these stories. The uncanny, unsettling surprises of the universe visit us where we live.
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