被数百万人、惊悚作家、利特胡布、本周等评选为年度最受期待的书籍
获奖作家梅根·梅休·伯格曼（Megan Mayhew Bergman）的一本引人入胜的新故事集和一部关于女性经历生活挑战和美丽的中篇小说。
一位最近分居的女性用濒危的花朵填充一个巨大的玻璃容器，以建立一个只有她能控制的小世界，试图治愈她破碎的心。一个有竞争力的游泳运动员会协商她将在哪几天履行她的妻子职责，以及她将为自己保留哪几天。一位桃农想知道她的果园是否能经受住干旱。南卡罗来纳州一个家庭的几代人都在与忠诚和他们残酷的过去作斗争，一些人坚持旧的方式，另一些人痛苦地开辟新的道路。
在这些令人难以忘怀的故事中，梅根·梅休·伯格曼（Megan Mayhew Bergman）描绘了那些与有问题的遗产搏斗的女性：一座位于危险的加利福尼亚悬崖上的现代玻璃房子，一座缺水的牧场，以及查尔斯顿附近一条河上的一座废弃种植园。伯格曼富有挑衅性的散文提出了这样的问题：我们留给后代的是什么？他们会为我们的错误付出什么代价？
How Strange a Season: Fiction
Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by The Millions, Thrillist, LitHub, The Week, and more
An evocative and engrossing collection of new stories and a novella about women experiencing life’s challenges and beauty from the award-winning writer Megan Mayhew Bergman.
A recently separated woman fills a huge terrarium with endangered flowers to establish a small world only she can control in an attempt to heal her broken heart. A competitive swimmer negotiates over which days she will fulfill her wifely duties, and which days she will keep for herself. A peach farmer wonders if her orchard will survive a drought. And generations of a family in South Carolina struggle with fidelity and their cruel past, some clinging to old ways and others painfully carving new paths.
In these haunting stories, Megan Mayhew Bergman portrays women who wrestle with problematic inheritances: a modern glass house on a treacherous California cliff, a water-starved ranch, and an abandoned plantation on a river near Charleston. Bergman’s provocative prose asks the questions: what are we leaving behind for our descendants to hold, and what price will they pay for our mistakes?
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