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Useful Gifts (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)

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Had to read this for college English, and glad I did. Moving, sad, and funny all in the same book.

I donated $1 to breast cancer research at the Safeway at 15th Ave E and E John on Capitol Hill. I was allowed to choose a book from a big pile on a table just outside the checkers. I saw this and thought, why not?
I was pulled into these very personal, very tight, and infinitely wise stories and the lives they exposed the minute I opened the book. A few days later I finished it, loaned it to a friend, and set about getting a copy of Ms. Glickfeld's more recent work, Swimming Toward the Ocean. I suppose all art may have some flaws, but I haven't noticed any in Carols Glickfeld's work!
I'll also review Swimming Toward the Ocean when I finish it. I feel so fortunate to have found these works.