Living arrangements
By: Laura Maylene Walter
Publisher: BkMk Press, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Kansas City, Mo
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781886157804
Description: "This collection of 13 stories features mostly female narrators who confront the nature of home, mortality (especially death from cancer), mother-daughter and other domestic rifts, the poetry of Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop, beauty and superficiality, and individual young women's coming of age in the present day United States"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "Winner of the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction selected by Robert Olen Butler."
Table of contents: title: Living arrangements; title: Live model; title: The clarinet; title: The ballad solemn of Lady Malena; title: To Elizabeth Bishop, with love; title: The second rule of yoga; title: Festival of the dove; title: The last halloween; title: In the backyard; title: A system based on counting; title: How to speak Czech; title: The wig shop; title: Return to Stillbrook Farm.