000			01794cam a2200205 i 4500
008			200706t20212021nyu 000 j eng
020			_a9781538735060
020			_a9781538735077
100	1		_aCohen, Sam, _d1982-
245	1	0	_aSarahland : _bstories / _cSam Cohen.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York ; _aBoston : _bGrand Central Publishing, _c2021.
264		4	_c©2021
300			_a199 pages ;
520			_a"In SARAHLAND, Sam Cohen brilliantly (and often hilariously) explores the ways in which traditional stories have failed us, giving its cast of Sarahs new origin stories, new ways to love the planet and those inhabiting it, and new possibilities for life itself. In one story, a Jewish college girl named Sarah suffers from passively consenting to a form-life devoted to getting one's "mrs." degree. Yet another reveals a version of Sarah finally finding peace with her favorite local necrophiliac. A Buffy-loving Sarah continues her misguided search for self in a twin-- while probing fan culture. As the collection progresses, Cohen explodes this search for self, insisting that we have more to resist and repair than our own personal narrative. Readers watch as the ever-evolving "Sarah" gets recast: as a biblical trans woman, a lesbian literally growing roots, a being who transcends the earth as we know it. While Cohen presents a world that will clearly someday end, "Sarah" will continue. In each Sarah's refusal to adhere to a single narrative, she might even help build a better home for all of us, a place to live that demands no fixity of self, no plague of consumerism, no bodily compromise, a place called SARAHLAND"--
650			_aLesbisch
653			_aJüdisch
942			_cBU
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