Marge Piercy 
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Marge Piercy »s debut collection of short stories is a glimpse into the lives of everyday women moving through and making sense of their daily internal and external worlds. Keeping to the engaging, accessible language of Piercy »s novels, the collection spans decades of her writing along with a range of locations, ages and emotional states of her protagonists. Whether grappling with death, familial relationships, friendship, sex, illness, or religion, Piercy »s writing is as passionate, lucid, insightful, and thoughtfully alive as ever.