"There are, I suppose, stories full of brilliance, hilarity, and longing—the stories in MB Caschetta's terrific Pretend I’m Your My Friend are full of all these things—but I can't remember when I've read a collection so full of life. Actual life: the bad jokes, the astounding velocity, the sweetness and darkness. You will love the characters here the way you love your own family: complicatedly, with tenderness, understanding, and consternation. The only difference may be how willing—and eager—you are to introduce them to friends. Good heavens, this book is good." --Elizabeth McCracken
"A book of youthful verve, humor, melancholy and desire. It confronts the central mysteries: sexual, familial and spiritual, with elegance and aplomb." -- Carole Maso
Jacket Copy: From the author of Miracle Girls: A Novel — winner of a 2015 USA Best Book Award and an Independent Publisher (IPPY) Gold Medal — comes the powerful collection of stories, Pretend I’m Your Friend.
A sister’s darkest secret is revealed at her brother’s wedding. A woman with extrasensory visions accidentally gives her philandering husband her blessing. A dying mother wishes her cancer was her daughters’, not hers. Pretend I’m Your Friend lays bare the fear, loss, and pain of love, sex, and family life in eleven crisp, engaging, and startlingly funny, elegantly entwined stories.
In MB Caschetta’s newest collection, despair is inseparable from the irrepressible drive to find life’s meaning and joy. Pretend I’m Your Friend makes compelling connections vital to the human spirit as only a work of great fiction can.
"A book of youthful verve, humor, melancholy and desire. It confronts the central mysteries: sexual, familial and spiritual, with elegance and aplomb." -- Carole Maso
Jacket Copy: From the author of Miracle Girls: A Novel — winner of a 2015 USA Best Book Award and an Independent Publisher (IPPY) Gold Medal — comes the powerful collection of stories, Pretend I’m Your Friend.
A sister’s darkest secret is revealed at her brother’s wedding. A woman with extrasensory visions accidentally gives her philandering husband her blessing. A dying mother wishes her cancer was her daughters’, not hers. Pretend I’m Your Friend lays bare the fear, loss, and pain of love, sex, and family life in eleven crisp, engaging, and startlingly funny, elegantly entwined stories.
In MB Caschetta’s newest collection, despair is inseparable from the irrepressible drive to find life’s meaning and joy. Pretend I’m Your Friend makes compelling connections vital to the human spirit as only a work of great fiction can.