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For fans of American Housewife and the work of Lily King, a provocative, razor-sharp, and riotously entertaining story collection exploring the dark side of family and femininity. CONTAINS "COMORBIDITIES," WINNER OF THE BBC SHORT STORY PRIZE In my life, I had always been a good woman; controlling what it was that I wanted. But recently, I had started to notice my bad energy, and I began to follow it, wondering where it would take me . . . A woman has an unexpected outburst at a corporate therapy session for working mothers. A couple find some long-overdue time to rekindle their relationship and make an ill-advised home movie. A pregnant film director plots revenge on the actress who betrayed her. An ex-wife deliberately causes conflict at her ex-husband's wedding. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things illuminates the lives of malicious, subversive, and untamed women. Exploring failed sisterhood, dubious parenting, and the dark side of modern love, this powerful and funny collection exposes how society wants women to behave, and shows what happens when they refuse.

About the Author :
Naomi Wood is the award-winning author of three novels, including the bestselling Mrs. Hemingway. Her stories have been published in the Mid-American Review, Washington Square Review, Joyland, and Stylist, and have been shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize, the London Magazine Short Story Prize, and longlisted for the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. "Comorbidities" won the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award. She lives in Norwich with her family and teaches Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

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"Astonishingly good... For all their flaws -- and they have lots of them -- the women in these delectable stories are insanely fun to be with because they are so fully imagined and true to the way we live now." - Associated Press "An astonishingly good debut collection." - Post and Courier "Powerful and funny ... This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things illuminates the lives of malicious, subversive, and untamed women. Exploring failed sisterhood, dubious parenting, and the dark side of modern love. - Odyssey Bookshop "A wonderful writer." - Matt Haig "Complex, powerful, relatable, hilarious, expansive, REAL tales of modern motherhood. This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things captures the horror and terror of motherhood as well as the joys and tenderness. This book is another little chip off The Shame of not finding motherhood easy or pleasurable all the time - but mostly it is so, so funny. It's a life-affirming companion for any woman who has ever doubted or questioned or winced at her own life choices or deepest feelings. I loved it." - Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals "Wood's perceptive, funny writing and her characters, concerned about loving both their jobs and their children too much even as they worry their kids won't have a world to live in, make for a winning addition to recent, taboo-embracing motherhood fiction like Rachel Yoder's Nightbitch and Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy." - Booklist "A socially astute collection about the pleasures and perils of motherhood... a deft account of the huge toll of trying to have everything. A must-read for working mothers--for whom reading might be a luxury they can't afford." - Kirkus Reviews "Nuanced... deliciously complex characters." - Publishers Weekly "In these darkly funny tales, we meet mothers in all sorts of circumstances, from struggling with postpartum depression to parenting in a Jurassic Park-style dinosaur habitat. They grapple with their role in society and what it means to be a mom." - People "[A] candid collection about imperfect women embracing their messiest instincts." - The New Yorker "I love this collection! Every story is glorious--full of dark mischief, so funny and unexpected and original." - Emma Healey, author of Elizabeth Is Missing "Humane and very funny...[on] our emotional and intellectual storms, and the generosity we are capable of that will keep us all afloat." - Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist "A whip smart, funny, and pitch-perfect collection of stories about flawed and complex women we actually recognize. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things is literary fiction at its best, and Naomi Wood a writer at the top of her game." - Christie Watson, author of The Language of Kindness and Moral Injuries "How terrifically exciting to see Naomi Wood flourish in the short story form. It seems the perfect vehicle for her wit, intelligence, mischief and levity. These stories absolutely nail the experiences of women rebelling in worlds calibrated to restrict and undernourish them. They skewer modern parenting, maternity, romance, and morality. It's a beautiful, electrifying thing to witness--a writer so hilariously and so reasonably voicing the unspeakable." - Sarah Hall, author of The Beautiful Indifference


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780063399747
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Collins
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0063399741
  • Publisher Date: 26 Nov 2024
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 256


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