{"product_id":"a-good-day-for-seppuku-stories-paperback","title":"A Good Day for Seppuku: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKate Braverman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eHaunting new stories about girls on the brink of adulthood, women on the verge of breakdowns, and families undone by past deceptions.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Kate Braverman is a writer of astonishing versatility and lyricism. Her stories are brilliantly rendered, painfully intimate portraits of individuals who come alive on the page as if illuminated by strobe lighting. With remarkable precision she tracks the restless motions of a mind searching for its reflection in the world--a continuous interrogation of the self that sweeps us along with it, as in a mysterious adventure.\u003cstrong\u003e--Joyce Carol Oates\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf fame did not find Braverman when the moment was right, perhaps it will make amends now that the moment is wrong. . . . Braverman excels at flooding readers in images that throb with menace or pleasure, as if descriptive language were a vein into which our most primal fears and desires could be injected.\u003cstrong\u003e--Katy Waldman, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book feels timeless, think \u003cem\u003eTransparent\u003c\/em\u003e, sans the trans . . . Kate Braverman, an underground literary icon through decades of razor-sharp writing, returns with a gorgeously observed collection of stories about contemporary Jewish identity. It's profound, realistic, and funny in equal measure.--\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Canfield, \u003cem\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBraverman daringly, ravishingly, and resoundingly dramatizes the profound consequences of delusions, lies, ignorance, anger, cruelty, poverty, disappointment, conformity, inebriation, and violence with high imagination, sensual precision, cutting humor, and bracing insight.--\u003cstrong\u003eDonna Seaman, \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e *Starred review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBraverman writes forthright but beautiful sentences. Her details are so vivid that they feel like memories . . . \u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, *Starred\/Boxed review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKate Braverman is an original. Reading her is like hitching a ride on a runaway train, always dangerous, always thrilling, always a knockout. \u003cem\u003eSeppuku\u003c\/em\u003e is all that and more.\u003cstrong\u003e--Frederick Barthelme, author of \u003cem\u003eThere Must Be Some Mistake\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBraverman is the godmother of literary bad girls and a connoisseur of the shattered beauty glittering in the wreckage of her characters' lives.\u003cem\u003e A Good Day for Seppuku \u003c\/em\u003ecelebrates the Braverman vision, and frames her legacy.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e--\u003c\/em\u003eJanet Fitch, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Revolution of Marina M.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA thirteen-year-old girl must choose between her mother in Beverly Hills or her pot-growing father in the Allegheny Mountains. Dr. Bernie Roth and his wife Chloe reside in a grand hacienda in La Jolla. Their children are in college, and their disappointments are profound. But Bernie has his doctor's bag of elixirs for the regrets of late middle age. Mrs. Barbara Stein, a high school teacher, looks like she'd sacrifice her life for Emily Dickinson's honor. That's camouflage. Mrs. Stein actually spends summers in the Sisyphean search for her prostitute daughter in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are some of the tales told in Kate Braverman's audacious new story collection. These furious and often hilarious tableaus of American family life remind us of why she has been seducing readers ever since her debut novel \u003cem\u003eLithium for Medea \u003c\/em\u003eshook the literary world nearly forty years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKate Braverman\u003c\/strong\u003e (1950-2019) was the author of numerous books including the memoir \u003cem\u003eFrantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles, \u003c\/em\u003ethe novel\u003cem\u003e Lithium for Medea, \u003c\/em\u003ethe story collection \u003cem\u003eA Good Day for Seppuku\u003c\/em\u003e, published by City Lights, and more. She was the recipient of the Economist Prize, an Isherwood Fellowship, and the O'Henry Award. Her classic short fiction has appeared in \u003cem\u003eNew American Short Stories \u003c\/em\u003e(edited by Ben Marcus), \u003cem\u003eThe Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories \u003c\/em\u003e(edited by Tobias Wolff), \u003cem\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBest American\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCarver\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and other esteemed anthologies and award-winning collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 27, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758110245152,"sku":"9780872867215","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/70bb789083b2a4a1c3f3bafbac82af2b.webp?v=1780118276","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-good-day-for-seppuku-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}