Curtis Sittenfeld’s ordinary lives
The stories in her zeitgeisty collection Show Don’t Tell are dated by their cultural references, but their astute observations are timeless.
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Anna Leszkiewicz
Anna Leszkiewicz is senior commissioning editor at the New Statesman.
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