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Jill McCorkle: Going Away Shoes
October 6, 2009
Jill McCorkle writer

Jill McCorkle reads from her new collection of short stories, Going Away Shoes.

With her trademark wit and intelligence, McCorkle's new collection provides variations on the theme of women confronting the dark and difficult sides of love. From a woman about to embark on her first adulterous affair to the siblings who struggle with their widowed father's new love interest, the lives these stories follow can be full of heartbreak, but McCorkle's tenderness and humor make them feel lived in and purely believable.

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