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Animal Wife
Written by Lara Ehrlich
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This collection of fifteen stories is about girls and women who seek liberation, from family responsibilities, from societal expectations, and from their own minds.
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Lara Ehrlich
Lara Ehrlich is the author of the short-story collection Animal Wife, which won the Red Hen Fiction Award. Her writing has appeared in StoryQuarterly, Hunger Mountain, The Massachusetts Review, and The Columbia Review, among others, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Boston University, she lives with her husband and daughter in Boston. For more information, visit laraehrlich.com.
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