Why We Never Talk About Sugar
2012
First Published
4.20
Average Rating
144
Number of Pages
Get ready. These are not your mother's bedtime stories. In this mesmerizing debut collection, Aubrey Hirsch will lead you into the darkest recesses of human life, where hope and longing and love and loss look all too much like one another. Each of these sixteen stories may be filled with its own kind of despair, but they are not despairing as Hirsch enters with deep sympathy into the souls of lonely women (Cheater, Hydrogen Event in a Bubble Chamber, Made in Indonesia), broken men (Leaving Seoul, Advice for Dealing with the Loss of a Beloved Pet), young recruits (The Specialists), and dutiful daughters (Strategy #13: Journal, No System for Blindness). With a hard intelligence, Hirsch considers the toll of heartache (Why We Never Talk About Sugar, Certainty) and loss (The Borovsky Circus Goes to Littlefield, Paradise Hardware) and the simple cost of longing. Taut and tension filled, these stories will transport you into the heart of what it means to be human. But be careful. Hirsch's compassion arrives on a knife blade. And you just may find your own heart cut open.
Avg Rating
4.20
Number of Ratings
113
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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Author
Aubrey Hirsch
Author · 3 books
Aubrey Hirsch is a fiction writer and essayist from Cleveland, Ohio. She is the author of WHY WE NEVER TALK ABOUT SUGAR, a collection of short stories, and THIS WILL BE HIS LEGACY, a flash fiction chapbook. Her work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Third Coast, Hobart, The Rumpus, The New York Times and elsewhere.
