Kneeling on rice
Subtitle: stories
By: Elizabeth Denton.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Description: A collection of character studies. In the title story, two widows of the same man contemplate being evicted by their mother-in-law. In The Skinner Box, a professor is torn between a white woman and a Chinese one, and in Generations, a woman dying of cancer sends her daughter to spy on her father. A debut.
Table of contents: title: The skinner box; title: Generations; title: Kneeling on rice; title: Koh Samui; title: About Johanna; title: A leap of faith; title: Callings; title: The retreat; title: A house guest; title: Man for man; title: Bold.