The water diviner and other stories
By: Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781609385989; 9781609385996
Subjects: Immigrants; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: In this thought-provoking collection, Sri Lankan immigrants grapple with events that challenge perspectives and alter lives. A volunteer faces memories of wartime violence when she meets a cantankerous old lady on a Meals on Wheels route. A lonely widow obsessed with an impending apocalypse meets an oddly inspiring man. A maidservant challenges class divisions when she becomes an American professor's wife. An angry tenant fights suspicion when her landlord is burgled. Hardened inmates challenge a young jail psychiatrist's competence. A father wonders whether to expose his young son's bully at a basketball game. A student facing poverty courts a benefactor. And in the depths of an isolated Wyoming winter, a woman tries to resist a con artist. These and other tales explore the immigrant experience with a piercing authenticity.
Notes: The Iowa Short Ficiton Award.
Table of contents: title: Beauty Queen; title: The Water Diviner; title: The Fellowship; title: Today is the Day; title: Sunny's Last Game; title: The Lepidopterist; title: Hopper Day; title: Therapy; title: The Rat Tree; title: Security; title: A Burglary on Quarry Lane; title: Leisure; title: Accident; title: Here in This America; title: Hello, My Dear.