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Title: Big World

Author: Mary Miller

Narrator: Mary Miller, Andi Arndt, Janis Ian, Mary Gauthier, Telisha Williams, Amy Speace

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-10-14

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

A short story collection full of powerful prose and remarkably genuine characters from the author of The Last Days of California.

The characters in Mary Miller's debut short story collection, Big World, are at once autonomous and lonesome, possessing both a longing to connect with those around them and a cynicism regarding their ability to do so, whether they're holed up in a motel room in Pigeon Forge with an air-gun-shooting boyfriend, as in "Fast Trains", or navigating the rooms of their house with their dad after their mother's death as in "Leak". Mary Miller's writing is unapologetically honest and efficient, and the gut-wrenching directness of her prose is reminiscent of Mary Gaitskill and Courtney Eldridge - if Gaitskill's and Eldridge's stories were set in the South and reeked of spilled beer and cigarette smoke.

Members Reviews:

Highly Recommended

Iâve now read both of Millerâs story collections (this and âAlways Happy Hourâ) and both collections often feel like a series of unconnected stories featuring the same basic female character (and a battery of sad, pathetic, often delusional, usually happy-to-be-where-he-is men), which might sound like a criticism, but in fact this basic female character consistently captures something central to existence or at least existence as a large swath of us experience it (not in terms of details, but tone), a sense that weâre all kind of backing into our lives, finding ourselves in a place we might not have imagined without the imagination (or inclination) to figure out a way out of it. Sex is pervasive for Millerâs characters, but strangely unimportant; her characters sleep with men and sometimes women easily and often, and though thereâs not a sense that the sex is bad, itâs not really good either. It just is and her characters typically donât make much of it and donât feel traumatized by it. Itâs true most of her characters seem existentially lost in some way, they are typically young, attractive to varying degrees, and theyâve drifted into situations with men and in life that maybe they couldnât have imagined, but they are not typically looking for ways out. And thereâs a vein of sly humor running through all the stories, the title story of this collection, âBig World,â is a good example. Itâs the story of a mid to late 20s young woman, very pretty by all accounts (several characters comment on it), who drifts into a sexual relationship with her boss and with, it seems, a good part of the staff of the restaurant where sheâs a lousy waitress whose job seems to be slicing lemons (because sheâs bad at everything else), the joke being that whatever this is, itâs the opposite of a big world. Highly recommended.

The book is kind of the typical collection of short stories that professors at Ole Miss like. Stories about the typical southern

I was required to purchase this book for a class at The University of Mississippi. The book is kind of the typical collection of short stories that professors at Ole Miss like. Stories about the typical southern struggle that many people from this area can relate to, along with common moral ambiguity that is also prevalent in the South (such as drug selling teachers, staying with abusive spouses, and having affairs).