Home RemediesTonsillectomies should not be performed at home, cucumbers do not make good stand ins, and golf clubs are not for hitting your mother. Angela Pneuman renders these unsettling truths, small and large, with blazing insight in Home Remedies. It is a startling collection of stories peopled by Christian fundamentalists traversing various stages and crises of belief, grappling with intimacies that feel like an anxious mix of longing and repulsion, relating

wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son—but Hitler’s invasion of Russia sends her on a different path

When a routine tour of a particle accelerator goes awry

archaeologist Erin Granger must decipher the truth behind an immortal prophecy foretold in the Blood Gospel

When her friend and colleague is framed for the crime

eyebrow-raisers and double entendres

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Inspired by this enthusiasm

but Grace Kelly

She has so many brothers and sisters (she is a rabbit

reflective father and loyal husband who learned the hard way how to be a good man

Lucy—always fearless and independent—helps Alice emerge from her flat and explore the country

Laugh-Out-Loud School Humor: From surviving Dad's toxic oatmeal to facing off with his nemesis teacher