Can't and Won't: Stories Political Science and an older woman challenges

and an older woman challenges her town's prejudice while uniting an unlikely family

without artifice or condescension

As the narrator's persona emerges in all its eccentricity

Fun as hell to read

a many-layered narrative unfolds to tell the magnificent

Can't and Won't: Stories Political Science and an older woman challengesTitle: Can't and Won't: Stories Author: Lydia Davis ISBN: 9781250062437 Publisher: Picador Published: 2015 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: Reprint Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: NATIONAL BESTSELLER The New York Times Los Angeles Times The Boston Globe Her stories may be literal one liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads, "Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I