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The End of Youth is a collection of 13 linked stories, essays and rants, about carrying on after youth's hope is gone. In "e;Afraid of the Dark,"e; a child learns that there is good reason to be afraid. The adolescent narrator of "e;Description of a Struggle"e; finds that love can be brutal. "e;The Smokers"e; examines an adult's realization that longevity means seeing loved ones die. Written with the same spare and vivid beauty as her earlier award-winning works, The End of Youth is certain to win even wider acclaim."e;Throughout her writing career, Brown has exhibited a rare sensitivity in delving into difficult, uncomfortable materialdeath, disease, imperfect bodies and minds . . . in this slim book . . . there's also humor and sensuality so intense it's visionary . . . "e;San Francisco Chronicle"e;A strange and wonderful first-person voice emerges from the stories of Rebecca Brown, who strips her language of convention to lay bare the ferocious rituals of love and need."e;The New York Times Book Review"e;Rarer than the newness, the wit, the vivid readability, is the deep caring understanding, the wholeness, the truth with which this astonishing, haunting writer creates her people."e;Tillie Olsen"e;In The End of Youth, her new collection of stories and essays, Brown turns [a] gentle yet relentless gaze onto herselfor rather, onto scenes remembered from her childhood. The result is effortlessly perverse and frequently hilarious."e;BooklistRebecca Brown is the author of The Terrible Girls, Annie Oakley's Girl, The Gifts of the Body and The Dogs. She lives in Seattle.