Drift
Subtitle: stories from Newport Beach
By: Victoria Patterson.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780547054940
Subjects: Restaurants -- Employees -- Fiction; Family life -- California -- Fiction; Newport Beach (Calif.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Victoria Patterson's beautiful stories break our hearts as they inform us. Through her characters we see the complications and trauma of not fitting in with one's surroundings, in a version of California we are rarely allowed to see. Haunting, affirming, and often comic, her stories make the reader grateful for this writer's documentation of our human alienation-and our unexpected bonds. Patterson is a gifted storyteller, a fresh, essential new voice. - Dana Johnson, author of Break Any Woman Down (Dana Johnson ).
Table of contents: title: Remoras; title: Holloway's: Part Two; title: Castaways; title: Tijuana burro man; title: John Wayne; title: Henry's house; title: John Wayne loves Grandma Dot; title: Holloway's: Part One; title: The 1st & 2nd time; title: Winter Formal: A Night of Magic; title: The Locket; title: Joe/Christina; title: The Morning After.