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Mono Lake: Stories |
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The title story in this slim but impressive collection draws on the bleak existence of the inhabitants of Mono Lake, a small tourist town in the Eastern Sierra that shuts down every winter, allowing the residents, like beautiful Annie, to lapse into despair and drug addiction. What saves "Mono Lake" and the eight other stories here from descent into melodrama are their sharply observed details. When Annie tries to go on cleaning rooms at the motel on her first day without heroin, it's the smells--suddenly intense, moldy, slimy--that get her. And when Robin, returning home for Christmas in "Absence Makes the Heart," glances at the stockings laid out for Santa, she notices that her mother has carefully unstitched the name of her sister's ex-husband from his stocking and superimposed her new husband's name. Cummings offers a clear-eyed and generous picture of lesbian lives, and one only wishes the book were longer. --Regina Marler
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