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Underground Women by Jesse Lee Kercheval

abookishtype's review

4.0

In the author’s note at the end of Underground Women, Jesse Lee Kercheval explains that some of the stories in this collection are born from her habit of hanging out in libraries with obscure books (some of which appear in this collection). Odd facts inspired her to write about characters abandoned by history or society, many overlooked for most of their lives until someone takes an interest in their welfare. These themes play out over and over here. So much so that I might inspire us to check up on the “characters” we may run across in our own lives...

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