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Talking Fowl with My Father

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In The Bigness of the World, Lori Ostlund’s debut collection, people seeking escape from situations at home venture out into a world that they find is just as complicated and troubled as the one they left behind. In prose highlighted by both satire and poignant observation, Ostlund offers characters that represent a different sort of everyman — men and women who poke fun at ideological rigidity while holding fast to good grammar and manners, people seeking connections in a world that seems increasingly foreign. In the eleven stories in The Bigness of the World we see that wherever you are in the world, where you came from is never far away.

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