Title: Pins & needles : stories /
Authors: Brown, Karen, 1960-
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Short stories, American.
Abstract: In Pins and Needles , Karen Brown explores love and loss between mother and child, husband and wife, close friends, and virtual strangers. In many of these stories, Brown shows how love emerges as infidelity incongruous and disruptive, threatening the stability of daily life.
Contents: Unction -- She fell to her knees -- Breach -- Beautiful -- Apparitions -- Confessions -- The ropewalk -- Pins and needles -- On the lake -- Destiny -- Mouth of friend and stranger -- The returning -- Dead boyfriends -- Galatea.