This close
Subtitle: stories
By: Jessica Francis Kane
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9781555976361
Subjects: Social life and customs; Fiction
Description: "A middle-aged woman, irritated with her wealthy young neighbor's yard improvements, offers a corner of her lawn to a Croatian immigrant who wants a vegetable garden. A daughter accompanies her father to Israel, where, seeing a new side of him away from her mother, she makes an unusual bargain. In twelve stories about the difficult, sometimes impermeable boundaries between friends, neighbors, and family relations, Jessica Francis Kane explores just how close we can come to love, success, happiness, and forgiveness."--P. [4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: Lucky boy --; title: American lawn --; title: Lesson --; title: First sale --; title: Double take --; title: Night class --; title: Evidence of old repairs --; title: The essentials of acceleration --; title: Next in line --; title: The stand-in --; title: The old beginning --; title: Local birds.