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What Can You Do with a General by Emma Cline

The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award Shortlist Collection 2019

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What Can You Do with a General by Emma Cline

By: Emma Cline
Narrated by: Peter Marinker
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In What Can You Do With A General, a family gathers for Christmas in California while dark undercurrents hint at past violence and abuse. It's been described as "a Cheever-esque, perfect story" by judge Carys Davies.

©2019 Emma Cline (P)2019 Audible, Ltd. Short Stories
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A fair description of how parental expectations of peer relationships with grown children are elusive, perhaps unattainable. No resolutions are suggested and you are left wondering what might happen in episode 2.

Post-parenting elegy

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Waste of time!
Depressing and no story.
I kept expecting something but it fell completely flat.

What’s the point?

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