![]() With characters old, young, straight, gay, and simply confused, Donoghue dazzles with her range and her ability to touch lightly but delve deeply into the human condition. Many of these stories involve animals and what they mean to us, or babies and whether to have them some replay biblical plots in modern contexts. From the unforeseen consequences of a polite social lie to the turmoil caused by the hair on a woman's chin, Donoghue dramatizes the seemingly small acts upon which our lives often turn. A roommate's bizarre secret liberates a repressed young woman. A coach's son discovers his sexuality on the football field. Subjects Fiction Short Stories LGBTQIA+ (Fiction) Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. A man finds God and finally wants to father a child-only his wife is now forty-two years old. Touchy Subjects ebook &mid Stories By Emma Donoghue. A coach’s son discovers his sexuality on the football field. Touchy Subjects A man finds God and finally wants to father a childonly his wife is now forty-three years old. In this sparkling collection of nineteen stories, the bestselling author of Slammerkin returns to contemporary affairs, exposing the private dilemmas that result from some of our most public controversies. Emma Donoghue, the celebrated author of Room, brings her considerable talents to the short-story genre with these two moving collections. ![]() ![]() Her touch is so light and exuberantly inventive, her insight at once so forensic and intimate, her people so ordinary even in their oddities. ![]()
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