What luck, this life
By: Kathryn Schwille
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781938235429
Subjects: Families; Fiction; Columbia (Spacecraft); Social problems; Small cities; Accidents
Description: "What Luck, This Life begins in the aftermath of the space shuttle's break-up, as the people of Piney Woods watch their pastures swarm with searchers and reporters bluster at their doors. A shop owner defends herself against a sexual predator who is pushed to new boldness after he is disinvited to his family reunion. A closeted father facing a divorce that will leave his gifted boy adrift retrieves an astronaut's remains. An engineer who dreams of orbiting earth joins a search for debris and instead uncovers an old neighbor's buried longing. In a chorus of voices spanning places and years, What Luck, This Life explores the Columbia disaster's surprising fallout for a town beset by the tensions of class, race, and missed opportunity. Evoking Sherwood Anderson's classic Winesburg, Ohio and Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge, the novel's unforgettable characters struggle with family upheaval and mortality's grip and a luminous book emerges--filled with heartache, beauty and warmth." --
Table of contents: title: FM 104; title: Bostic's; title: The road to Houston; title: Against the sky; title: A camp in the woods; title: Cottonwood stand; title: The ground; title: Prevalent wind; title: A downward path; title: In Parker's Wood; title: The middle of that mess; title: From a distance; title: Pasture, stubble, shoulder of the highway; title: Sliver of moon; title: At the window.