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    Gone South and Other Ways to Disappear: Short Stories
    Gone South and Other Ways to Disappear: Short Stories
    Gone South and Other Ways to Disappear: Short Stories
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    Gone South and Other Ways to Disappear: Short Stories

    By Julia Leggett

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    A collection of eight sharply imaginative short stories that focus on women’s relationships with their bodies, their lovers, their female friends, and their health. After an overweight cubicle worker takes a diet pill she loses sixty pounds in eight hours and her relationships with other women begins to change. A bossy stay-at-home mom’s husband leaves her for a younger woman, and while trying to make sense of her suddenly altered life, she has an otherworldly experience. A young therapist struggles to face her terminal cancer diagnosis as her body slowly gives out. While on vacation in Italy, a successful copy editor who longs to escape from her life follows a stranger home. These are just a few of the captivating characters that inhabit Julia Leggett’s witty and brilliant debut fiction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMother Tongue Publishing
    Release dateSep 15, 2014
    ISBN9781896949673
    Gone South and Other Ways to Disappear: Short Stories
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    Julia Leggett

    Julia Leggett was born in Calgary but grew up in Zimbabwe. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She has served on the poetry editorial board for PRISM international Magazine. Her work has appeared in Force Field: 77 Women Poets of British Columbia, edited by Susan Musgrave (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2013). She lives in Victoria, B.C., where she is working on her Master's in Counselling Psychology and a book of poetry.

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