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I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

Julianna Baggott Tavia Gilbert Andi Arndt Kelli Tager

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Miscellaneous
28 March 2023
"Bestselling author Julianna Baggott delivers her mind-bending debut short-story collection, featuring an array of genres populated by deeply human characters, and with film rights to the stories already having been sold to Netflix, Paramount, Amblin, Lionsgate, and others!

In the title story, set five minutes in the future where you not only have a credit score but also a dating score, a woman who's been banished from all dating apps attends a weekly help group with others who have been ""banned for life,"" and finds herself falling in love. In ""Backwards,"" a twist on Benjamin Button, a woman reconnects with her estranged father as he de-ages ten years each day they spend together. In ""Welcome to Oxhead,"" all the parents in a gated community ""shut off"" when the power goes out. In ""Portals,"" a small town deals with hope and loss when dozens of portals suddenly open. In ""How They Got In,"" a grieving family starts to see a murdered girl in all of their old home videos.

This fantastical collection from a unique voice contains a myriad of stories of the weird and wonderful. Julianna Baggott is a talented and clever guide, and I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You will take the reader on a journey unlike anything they've experienced."

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Imprint:   Miscellaneous
Dimensions:   Height: 206mm,  Width: 142mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   340g
ISBN:   9798212206471
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Julianna Baggott is a poet and the author of several novels for adult readers, including Girl Talk, The Madam, and The Miss America Family, as well as Which Brings Me to You, cowritten with Steve Almond. As the pseudonymous N. E. Bode, she has written The Slippery Map, The Anybodies, The Nobodies, and The Somebodies. She lives with her family in Tallahassee, Florida.

Reviews for I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

Casually fantastical, beautifully surreal, and packing an unexpected emotional punch, the stories in I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You are clever and subversive and proof that, in the right hands, big ideas can come in small, perfect packages. -- Jonathan Tropper, New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where I Leave You


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