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The Folly of Loving Life

by Monica Drake
The Folly of Loving Life

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A whip-smart collection of Portland-centered linked short stories, The Folly of Loving Life is Monica Drake at her best: darkly funny, incessantly but uncontrivedly quirky, suddenly heart-breaking, and full of bursts of remarkable insight into this absurd and sometimes soul-crushing monkey business called being human. Recommended By Gigi L., Powells.com

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Following her acclaimed novels Clown Girl and The Stud Book, Monica Drake presents her long-awaited first collection of stories. The Folly of Loving Life features linked stories examining an array of characters at their most vulnerable and human, often escaping to somewhere or trying to find stability in their own place. These stories display the best of what we love about Monica’s writing — the sly laugh-out-loud humor, the sharp observations, the flawed but strong characters, and the shadowy Van Sant-ish Portland settings.

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"What can I say about Monica Drake’s stories? They are brilliant, sure. They are hilarious, yes. Each one is a marvel. But more importantly – they are raw and awake and full of life. At the center of each one is the bright beating heart of what literature can be: Relevant, unusual, entertaining, fascinating, unique. These are not characters – and Drake’s is not a voice – that you can ignore or forget." Pauls Toutonghi, author of Dog Gone

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Monica Drake is the author of the award-winning indie novel Clown Girl, as well as The Stud Book. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona and designed and launched the BFA in Writing at the Pacific Northwest College of Art where she currently is faculty. Her short stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Paris Review Daily, The Sun, Oregon Humanities Magazine, Northwest Review and other publications, in print, online and anthologized.

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Susan L DeFreitas , April 12, 2016 (view all comments by Susan L DeFreitas)
The characters who populate these linked stories feel like people I know; the settings and scenes speak to this moment in history in such a powerful way; and though these stories never quite go speculative (I would argue that “The Arboretum” could pass for a ghost story), there’s that delicious sense of a tilted world, the feeling that you couldn’t possibly predict which direction any given story is going to go in. “S.T.D. Demon” in particular is a tour de force. I feel like it actually rearranged my synapses, not unlike a talk the poet Mary Ruefle gave at Tin House a few years back--the subject of which was, in part, shrunken heads. That's the power of a great writer three or four levels deep with some genuinely profound (and profoundly weird) subjects--deep enough to make them funny. And Monica Drake is one of the funniest ladies around.

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