You Never Get It Back

Following a young woman from her childhood in the countryside to her pursuit of academic vocation as an adult.

The linked stories in Cara Blue Adams’s precise and observant collection offer elegantly constructed glimpses of the life of Kate, a young woman from rural New England, moving between her childhood in the countryside of Vermont and her twenties and thirties in the northeast, southwest, and South in pursuit of a vocation, first as a research scientist and later as a writer. Place is a palpable presence: Boston in winter, Maine in summer, Virginia’s lush hillsides, the open New Mexico sky. Along the way, we meet Kate’s difficult bohemian mother and younger sister, her privileged college roommate, and the various men Kate dates as she struggles to define what she wants from the world on her own terms.

Wryly funny and shot through with surprising flashes of anger, these smart, dreamy, searching stories show us a young woman grappling with social class, gender, ambition, violence, and the distance between longing and having.

(from Goodreads)

More about this collection

Author Cara Blue Adams’ website

A Full Range of Emotions’ – Cara Blue Adams interviewed by Bomb agazine

‘The Art of the Short Story’ – Center of Fiction interview with Cara Blue Adams

Goodreads page – including Chris’ little review

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