TY - ABST T1 - "The Touches" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Brenda Peynado (b. 1985) KW - Dominican American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future where disease means that the world is divided between the clean and the dirty, and humans live in the clean never touching another human. The protagonist details the four times in her life that she has been touched.

JF - tor.com SN - 978-0-143135623 UR - https://www.tor.com/2019/11/13/the-touches-brenda-peynado/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in her The Rock Eaters: Stories (New York: Penguin Books, 2021), 167-90.

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Illus. Keith Negley

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PU, Public

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