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Babies

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Author: Ann Packer
ISBN: 9781101970232

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Published on May 31, 2015 | 28 Pages

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Published on May 31, 2015 | 28 Pages

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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection

Virginia, a copywriter at an ad agency, looks around her office one day and realizes that everyone—well, nearly everyone—is pregnant. Can she be happy for them?

“Babies,” included in the prestigious O. Henry anthology series in 1992, is a sharply funny and perfectly observed story of pregnancy, city living, the semantic contradiction of “creative directors,” and finding one’s place in the world. A selection from Ann Packer’s luminous first collection Mendocino and Other Stories.

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Praise for Ann Packer and Mendocino and Other Stories

“Stunning. . . . Packer can break your heart—and she can mend it, too. ” —O, The Oprah Magazine

“Exhilarating. . . . Searing. . . . [Packer’s] stories brim with piercing vitality and clear-eyed believability.” —The Washington Post

“Her writing is graceful and effortless, yet as controlled and purposeful as a nest-building bird.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Author

Ann Packer

Ann Packer is the author of two best-selling novels, Songs Without Words and The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, the latter of which received a Great Lakes Book Award, an American Library Association Award, and the Kate Chopin Literary Award. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Vogue, and Real Simple. Also the author of Mendocino and Other Stories, she lives in northern California with her family.

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