Full name: Death Is Not an Option: Stories

Author: Suzanne Rivecca Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction, Contemporary Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393072563 9780393339901 0393072568 0393339904

Death Is Not an Option is a bold, dazzling debut collection about girls and women in a world where sexuality and self-delusion collide. In these stories, a teacher obsesses over a student who comes to class with scratch marks on his face; a Catholic girl graduating high school finds a warped kind of redemption in her school's contrived class rituals; and a woman looking to rent a house is sucked into a strangely inappropriate correspondence with one of the landlords. These are just a few of the powerful plotlines in Suzanne Rivecca's gorgeously wrought collection. From a college student who adopts a false hippie persona to find love, to a young memoirist who bumps up against a sexually obsessed fan, the characters in these fiercely original tales grapple with what it means to be honest with themselves and the world. Similar books: What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi In the Garden of the North American Martyrs by Tobias Wolff The Dead Fish Museum by Charles D'Ambrosio Love and Hydrogen by Jim Shepard Crash Diet by Jill McCorkle The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr I Cannot Tell a Lie, Exactly by Mary Ladd Gavell Among the Missing by Dan Chaon Back in the World by Tobias Wolff Complete Short Stories by Graham Greene Touchy Subjects by Emma Donoghue Cat O'Nine Tales by Jeffrey Archer Nine Inches by Tom Perrotta A Better Angel by Chris Adrian Perfect Recall by Ann Beattie Drown by Junot Diaz Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro Open Secrets by Alice Munro The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D'J Pancake How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers