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Chum

Mary and Bickerman are the center of their circle of friends—but these friends are strangers as well as family to them. In the course of a year, under the influence of a stressful wedding and a whole lot of alcohol, relationships and nerves are twisted and broken as the dynamics of the cozy-seeming group shift. Secrets are kept, emotions withheld, and it doesn't look like it's going to end well for anyone.

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Told always in first person, but not the same person, and unfolding in double-helix chronology that provides a Rashomon-like narration, Chumis the story of love, liquor, and death.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 208 pages

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