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Remarkable

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Remarkable by Dinah Cox is a collection of interconnected stories set in the rural Oklahoma town of the same name. The book delves into the lives of its inhabitants, capturing their eccentricities, struggles, and surprising interplay of events in their everyday experiences. Through a mix of dark humour and raw emotion, it paints a vivid picture of small-town life and its complexities.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate thought-provoking stories with a keen insight into the complexities of human nature. The writing combines humour and sharp observation, offering a captivating exploration of life's contradictions and the unpredictability of people's actions within a small-town setting.

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Award-winning short stories survey the Great Plains landscape and the complex, resilient lives of its inhabitants--sad, funny, and always remarkable.

FFF co-op available. Galleys available: national mailing to key review/media outlets 4-5 months prior to publication. National advertising: Poets & Writers magazine, American Poet magazine, the Academy of American Poets newsletter, Rain Taxi, and Redactions. National print campaign: 100 finished books will be mailed to key review outlets, specifically targeting Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Rumpus, etc. Blurb endorsements from Dagoberto Gilb, Toni Graham, and Nona Caspers. Spring announcements will be submitted to Publishers Weekly. Online/social media campaign: Extensive promotion through BOA's website and blog; Facebook (6,300+ contacts), Twitter (5,000 followers), Instagram (1,000+ followers), and Pinterest (500+ followers) accounts; print and e-postcards; print and e-materials; and print and e-catalogs. Electronic postcards to announce book publication will be sent to Cox's academic contacts, bookstore contacts, and literary bloggers. Electronic newsletter feature will be emailed to BOA's database of 5,500+ contacts. Ebook will be available at the same time as print publication to maximize sales. Ebook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed. Publisher and author will be promoting both e and p through social media. Author will attend the AWP Conference 2016 in Los Angeles, where she will have an author signing. The publication of Remarkable will coincide with Dinah Cox's partner, the poet Lisa Lewis, whose fifth full-length collection, The Body Double, will be released at the same time from Georgetown Review Press. The two will be setting up joint readings. Cox is well-known in the Great Plains area, specifically at such bookstores/venues as Full Circle Books in Oklahoma City, OK; Hastings in Stillwater, OK; Booksmart Tulsa. Promotion through the author's Facebook and Twitter accounts (@DinahCox).

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Set within the resilient Great Plains, these stories are marked by the region's people and landscape, and the distinctive way it is both regressive in its politics yet also stumbling toward something better. While not all stories are explicitly set in Oklahoma, the state is almost a character that is neither protagonist nor antagonist, but instead the weird next-door-neighbour you're perhaps too ashamed of to take anywhere. Who is the embarrassing one—you or Oklahoma?

Remarkable by Dinah Cox captures the essence of the Great Plains and its unique social dynamics.

Dinah Cox lives in her hometown of Stillwater, Oklahoma, where she teaches in the English department at Oklahoma State University and is an associate editor at Cimarron Review.

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Remarkable by Dinah Cox has been praised for its sharp and surprising stories that often evoke humour mixed with pathos. The collection is noted for its portrayal of ordinary, often eccentric characters in Oklahoma, rendered with profound wit and poetic prose. Reviewers commend Cox for her ability to deftly balance funny, disturbing, and smart narratives that both engage the reader and reveal deeper emotional truths.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781942683100

Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 May 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: BOA Editions, Limited

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 198g

Pages: 192

About the Author

Dinah Cox's stories appear in such places as StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Salt Hill, Cream City Review, Calyx, Copper Nickel, Beloit Fiction Journal, Quarterly West, and elsewhere, and have won prizes from The Atlantic Monthly, The Texas Observer, and Hayden's Ferry Review. She teaches in the English Department at Oklahoma State University where she also is an associate editor at Cimarron Review. She lives and works in her hometown of Stillwater, Oklahoma.

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