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Although the characters in these stories may be the usual suspects, making the usual mistakes, their stories are anything but the usual fare. Populated by pretenders, ex-cons, and wannabes who bend the rules, break the law, and risk everything to salvage their own hearts, the twelve stories in The Usual Mistakes conduct readers into a world where betrayal is just a beginning. Deception, infidelity, even death - where a person goes from there is the mainspring of Erin Flanagan's fiction, and in the turns her characters take, we find rare insights: that we are often wedded to one another because of, not in spite of, our flaws and that this paradoxical connection may in fact be cause for hope. An impostor medical assistant and an ex-neo-Nazi, covered head to toe in swastika tattoos; a seemingly oafish but suddenly sympathetic husband and a boorish mother-in-law in need of comforting; and a young boy who finds adulthood by learning to forgive - the characters in these stories are by turns inappropriate, outlandish, selfish, and kind and are complicated as only real people are.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Usual Mistakes, and Other Stories
• Author: Erin Flanagan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218
• EAN: 9780803271746
• ISBN: 0803271743
• ID: 04924093
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Weight: 277 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 2013

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