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Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories

by Jim Shepard

Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen—“Here is the effect of these two books,” wrote the Chicago Tribune: “A reader finishes them buzzing with awe”—Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in more than a decade.

Like You’d Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with a host of narrators only Shepard could bring to... (more)

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Shepard's stories take place in all kinds of settings: Chernobyl, on Hadrian's Wall, at a contemporary high school football powerhouse, among Germans in Tibet as WWII commences, at the sight of a terrible tidal wave in Alaska, on an ill-fated 1840 expedition into the Australian interior, with Aeschylus as he goes to a hopeless battle, with the first Soviet woman cosmonaut, with a boy at a particularly awful summer camp, and with an executioner during the French Revolution.

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