Introduction This sly and subversive collection of thirteen interlinked stories exposes the underlying misery and crisis in the community of Newport Beach, California. Things are not always as they appear on the polished or tarnished surface — as the reader learns by getting to know the dark secrets of the seemingly well-off and the virtues [...]
Archive of posts tagged short stories
Drift by Victoria Patterson
31 August 2009, 11:26 am
Tagged adult, fiction, gay/lesbian, short stories
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Crazy Woman Creek edited by Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, and Nancy Curtis
23 June 2009, 10:32 am
About the Editors Linda M. Hasselstrom, born in Texas, divides her time between Hermosa, South Dakota, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have been widely published. She is the author of eleven books, including Between Grass and Sky: Where I Live and Work and Feels Like Far: A Rancher’s Life on the [...]
Tagged community, Nonfiction, Poetry, short stories, the West, women
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Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
19 June 2009, 10:50 am
Downloadable Guide for Group Discussion and Classroom use • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award • The New Yorker’s Best Debut of the Year • Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • American Academy of Arts and Letters • Addison M. Metcalf Award Winner “Storytelling [...]
Tagged family, fiction, India, love story, short stories
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Faith: Stories by C. Michael Curtis
18 June 2009, 3:15 pm
About the Book Chosen by the esteemed fiction editor of The Atlantic Monthly, the stories in this anthology of short fiction present readers with the world of faith in all its guises. Here are tales rooted in Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, Quaker, and Confucian beliefs, as well as Jewish and Christian ones. From James A. [...]
