Joyce Carol Oates: The (Other) You: Stories [2023] paperback Condition:New are her superpower

are her superpower

' Diane Allen

rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the individual's 'will to power'

Not so much because of his broken chastity vows

persistence and luck

Joyce Carol Oates: The (Other) You: Stories [2023] paperback Condition:New are her superpowerA powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of the short story In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we'd made different choices. An accomplished writer returns to her childhood home of Yewville, but the homecoming stirs troubled thoughts about the person she might have been if she'd never