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“I see these stories as quiet rebellions, flawed protests,” says Sara Lippmann about (Mason Jar Press, March 2022), her second story collection. The characters in search for a release from the confines of modern life—the demands of motherhood, the waning of desire in marriage, the perils of environmental destruction, the awkwardness of youth, and the disconnect between our social and private selves. Visceral and rich with sensory detail, the stories swerve from humorous to cutting to irreverent. As for

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