Who Do You Love

Name: Who Do You Love
Author: Jean Thompson
ISBN: 9780151004164

by Jean Thompson (1999)

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The fifteen stories in this collection - three never before published - illuminate real and imagined human needs and, in doing so, tell us something new about ourselves. A young woman has an epiphany, walking along the snow-drifted shoulder of a monotonous highway in the Midwest. The quiet rhythm of a suburban neighborhood is disrupted by peculiar activity at the local firehouse. A city cop on the graveyard shift internalizes the desperation of those he encounters night after night. And the formidable vastness of the Pacific Ocean humbles an urban junkie and his girlfriend in search of salvation. In precise and unsparing prose, Thompson dispels the comfort of taking life - and love - for granted, begging the very question of identity. Who are you? Who do you love?

Setting / LocationGlobal

Story EraLate 20th Century

Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters

Themes & Moods

Fiction & Literature Fiction & Literature National Book Award for Fiction 1999 National Book Award for Fiction 2000 Late 20th Century

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