{"product_id":"day-care-isbn-9781953387578","title":"Day Care","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning author Nora Lange comes a ransacking of the house of motherhood and matrimony.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNora Lange’s debut novel, \u003ci\u003eUs Fools\u003c\/i\u003e, was praised as the “Great American Novel” by Molly Young in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and “a razor-sharp critique of American capitalism” by Michael Schaub at NPR. Now, she turns her eye toward the daily exercise of getting by.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn “Heart Beats,” Carol and David arrive late to a Boston dinner party for a night of “messy socializing” with other couples, including a former cult-leader turned financial-advisor and a woman who learned of a “kinky sort of game” while riding public transit, details that she will reveal after the peach crumble. In “Island of Phaetons,” an expatriate living in Istanbul is called away from her daily life with “the husband” and “the friend who wanted more than friendship” to visit her mother, who notoriously makes bad decisions, and who has just arrived in Greece “with news” for her daughter, a tantalizing invitation that has her daughter immediately on a plane. In “Dog Star,” two figurines live out their dreams before succumbing to the truth that they have been assembled inside of a snow globe and will never go anywhere. In the title story, a new mother in Los Angeles navigates a job, a long-distance relationship with her husband, and her visiting mother, while hoping to find relief in daytime app sex.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese stories of lust, estrangement, and self-preservation are at once hilarious and savage. \u003ci\u003eDay Care\u003c\/i\u003e is a biting reflection on economic precarity, love, and peeing your pants.Heart Beats\u003cbr\u003eLast Boob Feed\u003cbr\u003eIsland of Phaetons\u003cbr\u003eHotspot\u003cbr\u003eThrowback\u003cbr\u003eDog Star\u003cbr\u003eThe Craftsman\u003cbr\u003eLetting Snails G0\u003cbr\u003eEncounter Beach\u003cbr\u003eFork\u003cbr\u003eDistrito Federal\u003cbr\u003ePanel Vs. Board\u003cbr\u003eHer Cousin Lena\u003cbr\u003eOwls Yawn, Too\u003cbr\u003eLandfills\u003cbr\u003eDay Care\u003cbr\u003eChill Local Vacation\u003cbr\u003eA Celebration\"Joyously perverse. A unique and unpredictable collection that elevates the fatigue of simply trying to exist at the quarter pole of the 21st century to an art form.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jim Ruland, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lange’s well-honed stories build to stinging epiphanies. Those with a taste for acerbic wit will find much to enjoy.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The world of these stories is a grotesque mirror image of our own, where repressive gender roles are amplified to the point of comedy. Excellent, biting satires from a unique feminist lens.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Read more than a couple of these slippery gems, and you run the risk of calling up friends and even strangers and saying, \u003ci\u003eHey, don't hang up—listen to this\u003c\/i\u003e...!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ed Park, Pulitzer Prize Finalist for \u003ci\u003eSame Bed, Different Dreams\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Lange's prose is smart and surprising, invigoratingly icy and delicious.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Joy Williams, author of \u003ci\u003eConcerning the Future of Souls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In these stories that are insightful, deliciously weird, and often laugh-out-loud funny, Lange reminds us that life, real life, is a kind of delirium. \u003ci\u003eDay Care\u003c\/i\u003e has made me greedy; now I want to see more of the world, more of our beautiful batshit existence, through Nora Lange's lens.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Maggie Smith, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eYou Could Make This Place Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lange is unwilling, uninterested, and unsympathetic to storytelling that traffics in the maudlin, mundane, or murky. The stories of \u003ci\u003eDay Care\u003c\/i\u003e are brutal, hilarious, and relentless; they are pedal to the metal, which is to say: divine and not a little bit insane.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Hannah Pittard, author of \u003ci\u003eIf You Love It, Let It Kill You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nora Lange writes with the precision of Joy Williams, and the heart of George Saunders, in a voice that is all her own.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Daniel Alarcón, author of \u003ci\u003eAt Night We Walk in Circles\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"The stories in \u003ci\u003eDay Care\u003c\/i\u003e are delicious paradoxes—found moments from daily life that have been extracted, exalted, and merged with the uncanny. In exquisite, highly-original prose, Nora Lange writes from the lonely heart of the modern world, where characters must behave erratically, dangerously, even badly, if they are to feel anything at all.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kevin Maloney, author of \u003ci\u003eHorse Girl Fever\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Red-Headed Pilgrim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Nora Lange's storytelling will force you to embrace the awkwardness that is the human experience. \u003ci\u003eDay Care\u003c\/i\u003e will leave readers feeling seen and emotionally exhausted while reflecting on what we do to just survive the day.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e—Jenny Gilroy, E. Shaver Booksellers (Savannah, GA)\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"This collection of stories is raw, funny, surprising, and at turns, both real and surreal. Nora Lange explores woman and motherhood through daily minutia, reveals its absurdities, and exposes how often life leaves us frustrated and unsatisfied; how we're mostly just getting through it as best we can.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e—Alana Haley, Schuler Books (Grand Rapids, MI)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"In the short story collection \u003ci\u003eDay Care\u003c\/i\u003e we meet couples, parents, and their children all seen through Nora Lange's satirical and witty look at life. \u003ci\u003eDay Care\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph and further cements Nora Lange as one of my favorite writers!\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Caitlin Luce Baker, Island Books (Mercer Island, WA)\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A short story collection so compelling and lived-in that I devoured it in a matter of hours. On my second re-read, and it hasn't lost any of its power.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e—Mick Kowaleski, Skylight Books (LA, CA)\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNora Lange\u003c\/b\u003e’s debut novel \u003ci\u003eUs Fools\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the The Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction, named a best book of 2024 by \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e and NPR, a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, and a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors’ Choice pick. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHazlitt\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Her project “Dailyness” was longlisted for the 2014 Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers. She has received fellowships from Brown University and is a fellow at USC’s Los Angeles Institute of the Humanities. She recently moved to Salt Lake City with her family.","brand":"Two Dollar Radio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233071050981,"sku":"NP9781953387578","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781953387578.jpg?v=1767724770","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/day-care-isbn-9781953387578","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}