{"id":2304,"date":"2013-08-21T19:17:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T19:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=2304"},"modified":"2022-12-20T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T16:43:07","slug":"make-me-do-things","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/make-me-do-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Me Do Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 200 pages \u2022 17.95
\nISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-935536-37-6<\/p>\n

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Victoria Redel\u00a0has been awarded the 2014 Devil\u2019s Kitchen Reading Award in Prose for Make Me Do Things<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

Make Me Do Things<\/em><\/h1>\n

Victoria Redel<\/h2>\n

In eleven original, surprising and deliciously dark stories, award-winning author Victoria Redel moves effortlessly between men\u2019s and women\u2019s perspectives as they explore marriage, divorce and parenthood. A newly divorced mother stumbles her way back into single life. A young man and his girlfriend clean out his dead mother\u2019s overstuffed home. A woman struggles to hide her affair from a doting husband and inquisitive daughter. A man descends into a drug-fueled dream as he imagines losing his pregnant wife to a historical, nineteenth century figure.<\/p>\n

Redel indelibly captures the ways we love, the ways we yearn and the ways we sabotage each. Throughout the collection, children struggle to make sense of the adult world\u2019s uncertainties as husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, find themselves pressed up against their own limits, \u201cthe exaltations and treasons of one\u2019s own mothy heart.\u201d\u00a0Redel has again done what\u00a0Grace Paley said of Redel\u2019s first collection, \u201cOnly a poet could have written this prose. Only a storyteller could keep a reader turning these pages so greedily.\u201d<\/p>\n

From \u201cAhoy,\u201d a story from Make Me Do Things<\/em>:<\/p>\n

This is the story of the year my wife became the sea captain\u2019s wife and carried his child, a child that is by all rights mine.<\/p>\n

My wife is wildly, crazily, ridiculously, fucked-uppedly beautiful.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s insane but she\u2019s almost more beautiful in the bonnet and linen-spun gown she walks through town wearing on her way to and from the Captain\u2019s house.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t imagine how this must sound.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re married, I\u2019m counting on you having at least come to the minor revelation of how little we know inside another marriage. And maybe, wherever you are in your own marriage–crossing a rainy parking lot on your way to the office or coming at night to your front door–with a sharp, embarrassed flash or a longing you can\u2019t quite name, you\u2019ve wondered what you really know about the house you\u2019re about to enter, about your own marriage?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nRead an Interview with Victoria Redel by Kathleen McNamara<\/a><\/p>\n

About the Author<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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