In One Fine Day the narrator is called upon to help locate an old friend's ex-wife. The first part opens with Dismembering, in which the narrator's dream that she helped her ex-husband dismember and bury someone drives her to purge her home of anything of his. The collection is divided into three parts, told in the first, second and third person respectively. The subject matter is ordinary, but the writing is not. Adelaide writes with wit and insight about broken relationships, food, romance, ill health. Some of the stories have been published before, but most are new. Zebra is a collection of 13 short stories and one novella by Australian writer and academic Debra Adelaide, best known for her novel The Household Guide to Dying. Short stories that reveal our human foibles, and an examination of how to overcome tragedy, are among our picks of the month.
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