Greyhounds (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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In poignant and vigorous prose, Greyhounds follows characters driven by their fiercest impulses—navigating obsession and control, lust and longing, and a desperate hunger for intimacy and connection.

A couple buys a Betta fish in the hopes it will solve their marital problems. A young girl, envious of her friend’s terminal illness, begins fabricating symptoms of her own. Catalyzed by guilt and unnameable desire, a husband and wife begin to drive incessantly, months after hitting a teenage boy with their car. And while her widowed neighbor watches, a woman who has long struggled with hoarding finds her life transformed when she begins accumulating greyhounds.

Grappling with identity crises, sexual revelations, and secrets both tender and ruinous, Smith-Stevens’s debut short story collection invites readers to reckon with the familiar through a kaleidoscopic lens—a captivating collection for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Marie-Helene Bertino.