All's Fair and Other California Stories

Name: All's Fair and Other California Stories
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Linda Feyder
ISBN: 9798868614095

Author: Linda Feyder

Narrator: Linda Feyder

Unabridged: 4 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: She Writes Press

Published: 11/15/2023

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

In this debut collection of richly evocative short stories, writer Linda Feyder portrays a diverse group of protagonists seeking fulfillment and connection in sunny California. She sketches her characters – of different ages, genders, and classes – with pitch-perfect honesty as they reassess their identities or confront the exact moment they face the fragility of life or themselves. A teenage girl travels to California from New York for an uneasy visit with the father she hasn't seen for years. A young man is disqualified from the Naval Aeronautical program and returns to his sister's home, where he struggles with his identity. A couple moves to the California desert for the warm climate a doctor prescribes and makes an unlikely friendship with a bullied albino boy. Girlfriends working together at a horse stable realize the nature of their friendship is changing when one of them decides to pursue her first sexual experience. Kirkus Review writes: “A beautifully rendered collection from a writer to watch.”

Reviews

Goodreads review by Martie on September 18, 2021

Genre: Literary Short Stories Publisher: She Writes Press Pub Date: Sep. 28, 2021 Mini-Review After finishing this short story collection, I was not surprised to learn that it is a finalist for the 2021American Short Story Award. However, I almost did not accept this book because I did not recognize th......more

Goodreads review by Mary on November 19, 2021

Linda Feyder’s characters in her short story collection “All’s Fair” experience California from all different angles. In the title story a transplant from Manhattan tries to get used to “seeing cactus in a garden…ugly,prickly things that belonged in a desert. Then, she reminded herself, she now live......more

Goodreads review by Story Circle Book Reviews on January 05, 2022

All's Fair and Other California Stories by Linda Feyder is a collection of thirteen short stories connected by their California settings. The stories are also connected by the point at which the author drops us into her characters' lives. As with most resonant short stories—those that allow us to st......more

Goodreads review by Bookish on July 14, 2022

When we think of California we often think of beaches, surfing, and getting a tan. Or maybe we think of show business, Hollywood, and glamour. Perhaps we think of the Real Housewives of both the OC and of Beverly Hills. And we can’t forget the California of Silicon Valley or the cable cars of San Fr......more

Goodreads review by A Court of Books and Love on September 16, 2021

e-ARC given by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All's Fair and Other California Stories publishes on September 28th. All's Fair and Other California Stories is a collection of short stories by Linda Feyder. I was interested in this book because I recently moved from......more