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What You Get at Home is Dora Dueck's brand new collection of short stories, released in October through Turnstone Press.

From the author's website:

"Full of longing and melancholy, the stories in What You Get at Home find comfort and understanding in the unlikeliest of places. In “The Rocking Chair” a piece of furniture simultaneously divides a family and heals old wounds. The narrator in the title story finds a sense of belonging and purpose in a small pool of light and her favourite book. In “Chopsticks” a piano in a personal care home reminds a woman of the sense of wonder and admiration she had for her father as a child. With the power of memory the characters that inhabit What You Get at Home find the strength to carry on when life is at its most challenging." (http://doradueck.wordpress.com/)

This collection follows the 2010 release ofThe Hidden Thing, which earned Dueck theMcNally Robinson Book of the Year Award in 2011.