![]() ![]() ![]() After Mattie berates her, Esther runs to her room in tears. Esther's Aunt Mattie disdains Esther's obsession with the movies, and her father and grandmother Lettie are surprised to hear that Esther wants to be a movie star. A screenplay entitled "A Star Is Born" is stamped with the words, "Final Shooting Script," then opened to reveal the following story: Esther Blodgett returns one winter evening to her home, an isolated farmhouse in North Dakota, after seeing a movie with her little brother Aleck, which starred her screen idol, Norman Maine.Funny, surprising, and delightfully strange - all the stories have a strong emotional core Ausubel's primary concern is always love, in all its manifestations.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. In "Atria" a pregnant teenager believes she will give birth to any number of strange animals rather than a human baby in "Catch and Release" a girl discovers the ghost of a Civil War hero living in the woods behind her house and in "Tributaries" people grow a new arm each time they fall in love. ![]() In each of these eleven stories Ausubel's stunning imagination and humor are moving, entertaining, and provocative, leading readers to see the familiar world in a new way. A Guide to Being Born is organized around the stages of life - love, conception, gestation, birth - and the transformations that happen as people experience deeply altering life events, falling in love, becoming parents, looking toward the end of life. Major new literary talent Ramona Ausubel combines the otherworldly wisdom of her much-loved debut novel, No One Is Here Except All of Us, with the precision of the short-story form. Reminiscent of Aimee Bender and Karen Russell - an enthralling new collection that uses the world of the imagination to explore the heart of the human condition. ![]()
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