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Shot by Sarah Quigley
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ABOUT
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the time it takes a bullet to travel through her left ear and into the back
wall of the Ellis Street donut store, Lena - star of the stand-up comedy
circuit - has a revelation. Mainly that she has never found comedy particularly
funny… Meet Lena Domanski, daughter of Polish immigrants, professional funny woman. Her brother spends his days in a deserted hangar, building satellites out of scrap metal. Her sister is a startling beauty of six foot two who stuffs dead animals for a living. Her father has founded a restaurant chain serving the cuisine of a country he despises. Her mother is making a small fortune out of peddling false eyelashes. But what about Lena? Lena Domanski is leaving it all behind. Trading punchlines for snapshots, she makes for Alaska - where she meets a mysterious tracker and a speechless child, and discovers that loss can sometimes be gain. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Sarah Quigley was born in New Zealand, has a D. Phil. from Oxford University, England and is now based in Berlin, where she was the inaugural CNZ/DAAD Literary Fellow for 2000 -01. Her short fiction and poetry has been published widely. Shot is her first novel. |
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