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HELP YOURSELF - CURTIS SITTENFELD GEBUNDEN

'Nobody else writes with such precision and amusement about the absolute inability of men and
women to understand each other' RED MAGAZINE 'Recommended for anyone who enjoys short stories.
She really doesn't shy away from sticky  nuanced subjects ... delivered with absolute poise.
Delicious' PANDORA SYKES  The High-Low podcast ____________________________________Sittenfeld's
wryly hilarious and insightful new collection  HELP YOURSELF  illuminates human experience and
gracefully upends our assumptions about class and race  envy and disappointment  gender and
celebrity.Suburban friends fall out after a racist encounter at a birthday party is caught on
video and posted on Facebook  an illustrious Manhattan film crew are victims of their own
snobbery when they underestimate a pre-school teacher from the Mid-West  and a group of young
writers fight about love and narrative style as they compete for a prestigious
bursary.Connecting each of these three stories is Sittenfeld's truthful yet merciless eye. Full
of tenderness and compassion  this dazzling collection celebrates our humanity in all its
pettiness and glory.A STYLIST Best Books for Autumn titleFeatured in the Sunday Times Guide to
CulturePraise for CURTIS SITTENFELD:'You won't want these stories to end' REESE
WITHERSPOON'Perfect miniatures in deadpan prose' GUARDIAN'Clear-eyed and compulsive' MAIL ON
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