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AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARAN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR‘What was it about complaining that felt so good? You and your fellow sufferer emerging from a thorough session as if from a spa bath, refreshed and tingling?’The first-ever collection of short stories from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides presents characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies.We meet Kendall, a failed poet who, envious of other people’s wealth during the real estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; and Mitchell, a lovelorn liberal arts graduate on a search for enlightenment; and Prakrti, a high school student whose wish to escape the strictures of her family leads to a drastic decision that upends the life of a middle-aged academic.Jeffrey Eugenides’s bestselling novels Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides and The Marriage Plot have shown him to be an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, self-discovery and family love. These stories, from one of our greatest authors, explore equally rich and intriguing territory.Narratively compelling and beautifully written, Fresh Complaint shows all of Eugenides’s trademark humour, compassion and complex understanding of what it is to be human.

Every love story starts with daring to take a chance…Rock star’s daughter Serena’s turned her back on her unconventional upbringing, and longs to settle down. Jake is a highly successful and focused businessman. He’s worked hard to escape his roots, and now lives by one rule: never get married! By all rights their blind date should be a disaster, but Jake’s never been very good at following rules…When cautious Fern is challenged by a friend to say yes to every question, she never expects to spend four days with dreamy explorer Josh doing a charity treasure hunt. Josh never stays in one place—or with one woman—for long. But Fern is challenging that rule. Could she be the treasure he’s been looking for all along?Two sparkling rom-com stories from the author of Make My Wish Come True & Kiss Me Under The Mistletoe