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"The inhabitants of a small town have long found that their lives intersect at one focal point: the local shopping mall. But business is down, stores are closing, and as the institution breathes its last gasp, the people inside it dream of something different, something more. In its pages, You Are H...

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Main Author: Lin-Greenberg, Karin (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : Counterpoint, 2023.
Edition:First Counterpoint edition.
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City and town life > Fiction.
Shopping malls > Fiction.
Albany (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
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Summary:"The inhabitants of a small town have long found that their lives intersect at one focal point: the local shopping mall. But business is down, stores are closing, and as the institution breathes its last gasp, the people inside it dream of something different, something more. In its pages, You Are Here brings this diverse group of characters vividly to life--flawed, real, lovable strangers who are wonderful company and prove unforgettable even after the last store has closed"--
Physical Description:289 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9781640095434
1640095438
Author Notes:KARIN LIN-GREENBERG is a Chinese American, award-winning writer whose debut collection, Faulty Predictions , won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and won gold in Foreword Reviews's INDIE Award in the Short Story category. Her second collection, Vanished , was the winner of the Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Fiction. She is the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in publications including The Southern Review , Story , and Boulevard . Her short story "The Sweeper of Hair," the basis of this novel's opening chapter, was a finalist for the Nelson Algren Literary Award and was published in the Chicago Tribune . Lin-Greenberg is an associate professor in the English Department at Siena College in upstate New York.

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