01541cam a2200301 i 4500 1073516097 TxGeo 20231204120000.0 230731s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023023863 9780593540923 hbk. 0593540921 hbk. TxGeo rda Kennedy, Louise, (Ph. D.), author. The end of the world is a cul de sac / Louise Kennedy. First North American edition. New York, NY : Riverhead Books, 2023. 289 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories by the author of the much-acclaimed Trespasses, women's lives are etched by deprivation--material, emotional, sexual--but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the cards they've been dealt. A wife is abandoned by her new husband in a derelict housing estate. An expectant mother's worst fears about her husband's entanglement with a teenage girl are confirmed. A sister is tormented by visions of the man her brother murdered during the Troubles. A woman struggles to forgive herself after an abortion threatens to destroy her marriage"-- Provided by publisher. 20231219. Women Fiction. Short stories. Domestic fiction. QS5