A Perfect Life and Other Stories
2016
First Published
4.14
Average Rating
178
Number of Pages
Call it happily ever after or a perfect life, it’s a universal destination we all hope to reach. Lily plays out the anxieties of her freshman year while standing in line. Lin, wanting only to be left alone, watches a stranger waiting on her porch. Denny flies tourists around an Alaska mountain, hoping to forget, while Alice embarks on an adventure to remember. Tate and Emily, friends since childhood, team up to play out the pirate games of their youth, only this time it’s not a game. From North America’s highest mountain to that quirky town at the end of the hook of Cape Cod and well past the stars beyond, Burnes explores the hopes and fears that drive us all. With eight previously published stories, and the all new “Auto Repair,” A Perfect Life and Other Stories is the first collection by the author of Wishbone.
Avg Rating
4.14
Number of Ratings
7
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Author
Elaine Burnes
Author · 3 books
Elaine Burnes is the award-winning author of the science-fiction novel Endurance. Tenacity, Book 2 in the Captain Lyn Randall series, comes out June 4, 2024, and is available for preorders. Endurance won a 2023 Golden Crown Literary Society award for Science Fiction/Fantasy and was a finalist for the Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award. Her 2015 novel, Wishbone, won a 2016 Golden Crown Literary Society award for Dramatic/General Fiction. A Perfect Life and Other Stories, was a Rainbow Award winner.
