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This collection of short stories focuses on moments in life when something turns: a choice is made, a promise kept or broken. With vivid and precise details, you are introduced to characters whose inner lives are both troubled and eloquent. These observant tales provide remedies to readers who are hungry for stories that will resonate long after the last page is turned.
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Named to the Chicago Book Review's Best Books list
Readers wrote:Anara Guard’s second collection of short stories showcases the experiences and emotions of the domestic scene. The book’s cover is an array of windows and doors, which represents the content within. Guard explores the complexity, the weirdness, and the heartache of what happens in the home among family and significant others. She embraces how quirky and funny life can be but also mixes the humor with life’s inevitable sadness and disappointment. Reading these stories is like walking through the house next door, with its everyday miracles and betrayals, both familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. Guard’s stories are a pleasure to read. These short stories are powerful and memorable, and although not long, they require time for reflection. Readers likely will recognize themselves in these stories, which evoke childhood memories that will feel familiar. These stories are luscious food for thought.
The stories in "Remedies for Hunger" evoke thought about the human condition as seen through the eyes of the most common of us rather than super heroes. Most of the stories are told in first person and pull you into lives that feel familiar -- yet different, the behind-the-scene stories underlying the headlines in the newspaper, the kind of stories that touch you emotionally, the kind of stories that cause you to reach inside for empathy and understanding rather than judgement. – Margaret Duarte
The strength of these stories lies in the characters that are created, each one engaging, believable, and irresistibly vulnerable. As often as we want to think of ourselves as not only unique, but also exceptional, better than others, the characters in Remedies for Hunger reveal that we are not. Regardless of the circumstances or situation, each character is self-reflective and insightful in ways that remind us of our commonality. Even the bear. I feel as though I have just spent time with many new and interesting people, each with a fascinating story to tell. -- Cherie O’Boyle
How lucky am I to have in my possession Anara's latest book! - just received it today (yay), and was impatient to get to it. I wish I hadn’t brought it with me to a Dr. Appointment though. - just as I was becoming immersed in a rather erotic passage, he entered the room. (come back later, please). I suspected my eyes had become dilated and anxiously stammered through his questions. In any case, the last line of “ Ambidextrous” - stunningly flawless! I confess it took me a few seconds to catch on (okay, maybe 15 or 20 seconds). By the time I finished “Georgia” I came to understand that this is a book to be alone with, to savor, with no risk of interruption; - not one to be read in a waiting room. –Nadia Roman
