The Baum Plan for Financial Independence: and Other Stories
 

The Baum Plan for Financial Independence: and Other Stories

by John Kessel

“These stories offer a sustained exploration of the ways gender dynamics can both empower and enslave us. Kessel’s wit sparkles throughout, peaking with the most uproariously weird phone-sex conversation you’ll ever read (‘The Red Phone’).” Grade: A- —Entertainment Weekly

“One of the best collections of the year.”—Locus

“These well-crafted stories, full of elegantly... (read more)

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John Kessel's delightful short story collection ranges from tales set in a martriarchal society set on the moon to stories spun off Flannery O'Connor. Kessel is a wise, funny, and often sly writer whose work is subtle, questioning and subversive.

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