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    A Lesson in Manners: Stories

    By Misty Urban

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    The ten stories in this haunting and hilarious collection offer a how-to manual for dealing with love, lies, and loneliness.  Whether facing life-threatening illness or life-threatening loss, these characters scheme in humble, funny, sympathetic, and outrageous ways to find an etiquette that will deliver them from disappointment and shield them from crushing grief. Winner of the Serena McDonald Kennedy Award for Fiction

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSnake Nation Press
    Release dateDec 4, 2018
    ISBN9781386996545
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    A Lesson in Manners: Stories
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    Misty Urban

    Misty Urban is a fiction writer, medievalist, essayist, editor, and former college professor. She is the author of three short story collections and the comedic women's fiction novel My Day As Regan Forrester. She has also published award-winning creative nonfiction and medieval scholarship on the topics of romance and monstrous women. She holds an MFA in fiction and a Ph.D. in medieval literature from Cornell University and lives in eastern Iowa with her family and a rather heavy collection of books.

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