Circling the Drain: Stories
By Amanda Davis
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Enter into the worlds of fifteen young women who, despite their vastly different circumstances, seem to negotiate an eerily similar and unavoidably dangerous emotional terrain. With a visceral bite or a surreal edge, each electrically charged story in Circling the Drain presents women trying to understand the nature of loss--of leaving or being left--and discovering that in the throes of feverish conflict, things are rarely what they seem. By turns dark and lyrical, ferocious and playful, these stories are precise, startling, and undeniably original. Reading them is a cathartic, mesmerizing literary experience.
Amanda Davis
Amanda Davis was raised in Durham, North Carolina. She was tragically killed in a plane crash on her way to her childhood state where she was scheduled to promote her debut novel, Wonder When You'll Miss Me, published in February 2003. She resided in Oakland, California, where she taught in the MFA program at Mills College. Davis also authored Circling the Drain, a collection of short stories. Her fiction, nonfiction, and reviews have been published in Esquire, Bookforum, Black Book, McSweeney's, Poets and Writers, Story, Seventeen, and Best New American Voices 2001.
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Reviews for Circling the Drain
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I picked this up at the library and liked it so much I paid them to let me take it home. Davis' writing is surreal and vivid, she writes about people we all know of, but may not ever meet. Her stories carry a hint of the magical. Amanda Davis died in plane crash a few years ago. Before her death she saw one other book published, Wonder When You'll Miss Me, also a great read.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Nothing new, inventive, or exciting about this collection of stories.