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How Strange a Season
How Strange a Season: Fiction | Megan Mayhew Bergman
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An evocative and engrossing collection of new stories and a novella about women experiencing lifes challenges and beauty from the award-winning writer Megan Mayhew Bergman. A recently separated woman fills a huge terrarium with endangered flowers to establish a small world only she can control in an attempt to heal her broken heart. A competitive swimmer negotiates over which days she will fulfill her wifely duties, and which days she will keep for herself. A peach farmer wonders if her orchard will survive a drought. And generations of a family in South Carolina struggle with fidelity and their cruel past, some clinging to old ways and others painfully carving new paths. In these haunting stories, Megan Mayhew Bergman portrays women who wrestle with problematic inheritances: a modern glass house on a treacherous California cliff, a water-starved ranch, and an abandoned plantation on a river near Charleston. Bergmans provocative prose asks the questions: what are we leaving behind for our ancestors to hold, and what price will they pay for our mistakes?
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Megan continues to impress me with her story collections! She deftly explores themes of environmentalism, race, & gender. She chooses strong female MCs that I connect with.

The novella Indigo Run is a fascinating a look at class dynamics on a plantation in early 20th c SC. She writes about token environmentalism in a story about invasive lion fish. In Peaches 1979, she writes with wry humor about a family that can‘t get along on a failing farm.

BarbaraBB Great review! 2y
Megabooks @BarbaraBB thank you! 2y
Megabooks @BarbaraBB btw, I sent you a package in the mail about 2 weeks ago. I may have screwed up the customs form, so 🤞🏻🤞🏻 it gets there. Anyway, lmk. 💜💜💜 2y
BarbaraBB @Megabooks How sweet of you! I‘ll let you know 🤞🏽😘 2y
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#ParnassusBooksHaul

Usually when I go to a bookstore, I get one from my TBR and one that just sounds good. The tagged short story collection has been on my TBR awhile, and Good Eggs (tagged below) just sounded good. Their collection is really well curated, so I think I‘ll love both!

Check their current bookmark too! 🤩

Leftcoastzen Love the bookmark! Carefully curated is what I love ! Hope to get to this store sometime. 2y
Megabooks @Leftcoastzen yes! I hope you are able to go. They put a lot of thought into what they stock and have very knowledgeable, friendly booksellers. It‘s a great experience! 2y
Megabooks Of course I got to scrolling and forgot to tag! 🤦🏻‍♀️ 2y
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jlhammar Those both sound great! I didn‘t know Bergman had a new collection out. I really enjoyed Almost Famous Women. 2y
Megabooks @jlhammar I loved AFW too! And I enjoyed this by Megan as well. I‘m pretty sure hers is a winner! 2y
Cinfhen Love the bookmark!!! And Good Eggs sounds like a lot of fun!!! So happy you got to browse & shop 💚💚💚 2y
BarbaraBB Wonderful! I‘m happy you treat yourself on days like this 🤍 2y
UwannaPublishme Great bookmark! 😍 2y
Megabooks @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB I was so happy it was literally two blocks from the doctor‘s office! And when I said to dad, do you mind if we stop at Parnassus? He said, I was planning on it. That‘s a good dad!! 😁😁 2y
Cinfhen Your dad‘s the best!! Hope his dr visit went well ♥️ (edited) 2y
Megabooks @Cinfhen just emailed you…so disappointed! 2y
BarbaraBB That is so sweet! I‘m off to read your email! 2y
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