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These literary short stories deal with the subject of dementia-what the world looks like from the outside and inside: how people cope, try to manage, try to imagine, try to adjust. We try to reason with the unreasonable, try to love the unloveable, try above all to find a way of reaching...and finally, we make stories about it.

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The Inner City is a collection of tasty mind-candy, offering inventive stories that stretch your imagination. Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) Heuler presents an engrossing collection of 15 tales of the ways individuals and society influence one another. ... Though the universally strong stories have no explicit connection, they blend to suggest a world that is at once recognizable and distorted, providing a new, clear perspective on the forces shaping contemporary Western culture. Publishers Weekly , Dec. 24, 2012 A daring, challenging, intelligent novel that skewers gender stereotypes and expectations as it blasts society's lazy complicity in its everyday misogyny. And it's a novel that you should read. Like now. Paul Tremblay, author of The Little Sleep and In the Mean Time This book allows us to examine the reality of what it means to be a man or a woman. I am reminded in part of the work of James Tiptree, Jr and Joanna Russ. The Made-Up Man is a worthy companion. Ann VanderMeer, editor-in-chief of Hugo-award-winning Weird Tales Magazine There is payback and revenge galore in Bob's plans, and lots of power plays in Madam Hope's. Does Alyson/Bob succeed? Does she/he get the raise that she/he deserves? Does Bob ultimately become as big a jerk as all the other men Alyson has dealt with? Who wins in the end? Silliness aside, Heuler's tale poses interesting choices and asks serious questions. Danise Hoover, Booklist

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Karen Heuler is an award-winning author of literary and speculative fiction. Her books, events, and other materials may be found at www.karenheuler.com.

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