Better times
Subtitle: short stories
By: Sara Batkie
Series: Prairie Schooner book prize in fiction; Prairie schooner book prize in fiction
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781496207876
Subjects: American Short stories; Women; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the stories in Better Times focus on what's happening in places people don't think to look. Women, sometimes displaced, often lonely, are at the heart of these stories. In Better Times Sara Batkie focuses on the moments in women's lives when the wider world is wrapped up in other matters: a father and daughter, separated by time and an ocean, dreaming of each other; a girl in a home for "troubled women" imagining the journey of the first dog in space; a phantom breast returning to haunt a woman after her mastectomy; a young woman giving birth to a litter of eggs. Such are the ordinary women weathering extraordinary circumstances in Better Times.
Table of contents: title: When her fatehr was an island --; title: Laika --; title: Foreigners --; title: No man's land --; title: Cleavage --; title: North country, early morning --; title: Departures --; title: Lookaftering --; title: Those who left and those who stayed.