and long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Story Prize, 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. Named one of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2013 and one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle.Ĭombines the otherworldly wisdom of Ausubel’s 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-this enthralling new collection uses the world of the imagination to explore the heart of the human condition.
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