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The Secret Box

Daina TabunaSeries: Emma Press Prose Pamphlets
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Year
2018
Language
English
Publisher
The Emma Press

About

On the cusp of womanhood, Daina Tabūna's heroines are constantly confronted with the unexpected. Adult life seems just around the corner, but so are the kinds of surprise encounter which might change everything. Two siblings realise they're too old to be playing with paper dolls. A girl develops a fixation with Jesus. And a disaffected young woman stumbles into an awkward relationship with an office worker. The narrators of these three stories each try, in their own way, to make sense of how to behave in a world that doesn't give any clear answers.

Related Subjects

  • Short Stories (single author)
  • Adult Fiction

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  • SeriesEmma Press Prose Pamphlets

    Reviews

    "Author Daina Tabūna (born in Riga, Latvia in 1985) has an innate skill in communicating voice to the reader. All three stories in The Secret Box seem to spring from some truth or experience in the author's life, from which she spins out a narrative with a viewpoint that is seamlessly consistent and vibrantly alive.'"
    Mslexia Max
    "A quote that I absolutely loved from this story was "Without warning, the time had arrived where it wasn't our dolls that had to be beautiful and sexy, but us ourselves". To me this perfectly sums up what the transition to becoming a teenager is like for a young girl. I commend Daina for highlighting this issue and for showing what society expects from women, even from a young age."
    Cuckoo Review

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    Daina TabunaAuthor