In the shadow of our house
Subtitle: stories
By: by Scott Blackwood.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Dallas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Austin (Tex.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In "Alias," a man grapples with the decision to kidnap his stepdaughter's child and raise her himself. During a medical crisis, a woman in "New Years" is forced to confront her teenage son and comfort her ex-husband's lover. In "Worry," a fifteen-year-old faces his father's infidelity and his own darkening vision of himself and the world around him.

And in the title story, neighbors ponder what they can do about the disappearance from their midst of Odie Dodd, an aging physician who witnessed the Jonestown mass suicide in Guyana."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: In the shadow of our house; title: Nostalgia; title: Riverfest; title: One of us is hidden away; title: Alias; title: New Year's; title: Worry; title: Prodigal fathers; title: One flesh, one blood.