From the author of Mrs. and Fundamentals of Playcomes a brilliant and biting short story collection about privilege, pride and our nagging need to belong.In an era of hot takes and easy generalizations, this collection is a reclaiming of the centrality of the individual in any narrative. In Macys stories, human proclivities and fatal blind spots meet the nuances and ironies of the real world to trump the convenient, social-media driven narratives which sort people into neat but unrealistic boxes of insider or outsider; good or bad; with us or against us.Whether at home or abroad, Macys female characters see their good intentions turn awry in the face of harsh realities a woman who tries to do a good deed for an underprivileged child sees it go horribly wrong. A wife, attempting to be good host to a friends strange ex-boyfriend, finds herself in a compromising situation. And, in the title story, a young American wife fancies herself well-cultured in Italy until an accident occurs that
Apache is the incredible true story of Ed Macy, a decorated Apache helicopter pilot, that takes you inside the cockpit of the world’s most dangerous war machine. A firsthand account of the exhi
The Roman Catholic leadership still refuses to ordain women officially or even to recognize that women are capable of ordination. But is the widely held assumption that women have always been excluded
The behind-the-scenes story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League is set against the backdrop of World War II and the changing attitudes toward women and femininity.
The year was 1899, as the old people told the story; the place a sweltering tobacco farm in Truevine, Virginia, the heart of the Jim Crow South, where everyone they knew was either a former slave, or
One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2022Author of Dopesick, the New York Times bestselling book that inspired the Hulu limited seriesNew York Times Bestselling author of Dopesick and Factory ManIn her gripping, necessary, and deeply humane follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Dopesick, journalist Beth Macy brings us to the next frontier of the opioid crisis, telling the story of the everyday heroes fighting to stem the tide of drug overdose in communities that are too often left to fend for themselves, and of the activists and relatives of the dead who are still struggling for accountability in America’s courts.Nearly a decade into the second wave of America's overdose crisis, pharmaceutical companies have yet to answer for the harms they created. As pending court battles against opioid makers, distributors, and retailers drag on, addiction rates have soared to record-breaking levels during the COVID pandemic, illustrating the critical need for leadership, urgency, and
