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If I Would Leave Myself Behind
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Lauren Becker lives in Austin, Texas. She has worked as an attorney, a health care policy analyst and advocate, a freelance writer, and a disability specialist. Her fiction has appeared at Tin House online, Hobart, the Los Angeles Review, Pedestal Magazine, Wigleaf, [PANK], and NANO Fiction. Her non-fiction has been featured on The Rumpus and The Nervous Breakdown. She is editor of the online literary journal, Corium Magazine.

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This collection of quick fiction is like a playlist of enthralling songs with every one a smash hit. The works share their author's gifts for distilled melodies and methods of great persuasion, for elegance of line, for the poignant or expectant detail, for a recognition of the sweet or funny or sexy or sad facets of lives unfolding. Here are blueberry scones, tattoos that say "Nothing," the scent of morning toast and the derived identities that might attend a bridesmaid, a stricken daughter, lovers as hunter or prey. But the stories do more. The young women narrators who talk us through these living moments seem often to be courting or rejecting mates, but they are driven by deeper, more mysterious impulses, for meanings and answers to our deepest questions.
-- James Robison, author of The Illustrator I can't explain the alchemy at work in a Lauren Becker story. Is it her voice, so real and immediate, so smooth in its resident sentences? Or is it something else--what happens beneath the accessible surface: how we might come to see we're not reading; we're being read? I've got no answers. But I'm ready to tell you this: no one at work in American fiction is doing what Becker does.
-- Scott Garson, author of Is That You, John Wayne? I've been reading Lauren Becker's stories for years and couldn't be happier to have them all collected in one place. Her stories inspire me to write, which is the highest compliment I can give to any writer.
-- Mary Miller, author of The Last Days of California "An arresting, instantly recognizable voice. In compressed and furious prose, and with a flasher's urgent vulnerability, Lauren Becker scratches the surface of yearning until it bleeds into stories."
-- Carolyn Cooke, author of Amor and Psycho I dig bellying up to one of Becker's stories. She knows how to mix that perfect cocktail--equal parts pathos and elegant insight, with just a splash of humor. Fans of Amy Hempel will drink these stories down and immediately order another!
-- Joshua Mohr, author of Fight Song

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