Because a Fire Was in My Head
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: April 18, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780803211391
Subjects: Modern fiction; Literary; Fiction / Literary; Fiction; Fiction - General; Relationship addiction; Self-esteem; Women
Description: Kate Riley is not the sort of heroine we meet in most American novels. Self-centered, shape-shifting, driven from one man to another and one city to the next, she is all too real--but not at all the loyal and steady homebody of idealized womanhood. When we first encounter her, Kate (or Katherine, or Kate of the Prairie, or Katrina) is about to undergo exploratory brain surgery for a condition she herself has fabricated. Sobered by the gravity of the procedure, she commences a journey of memory that takes us back to the Saskatchewan village where she grew up and to the singular event that altered her forever and irrevocably set the course of her life.
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