Sibs
By: Nathan Leslie
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Aqueous Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Birmingham, AL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780989238755
Subjects: Siblings; Fiction; Children; Frères et sœurs; Romans, nouvelles; Enfants
Description: The thematically intertwined stories in Nathan Leslie's Sibs, the author's seventh collection, center around brothers and sisters. Often gritty and vivid, we see siblings bond, scrap, and everything in between. Many of these intense stories revolve around childhood and the stresses that siblings must overcome; others are concerned with brothers and sisters doing their best to make do with often tenuous, dysfunctional situations. Playing chess in a local park, two brothers are confronted by a strange young girl. Two sisters struggle with shopaholic behavior. A brother and sister defy spousal abuse. In 1970s America, two sisters move to a hippie commune and experience the unexpected. Sibs is set in remote corners of California, run-down Western Maryland towns, and in post-Industrial wastelands; this is America barely clinging to its sense of family and purpose.
Table of contents: title: Pool Night --; title: Burlap --; title: The Bed --; title: Shaletown --; title: The Mellow --; title: A Day in the Park --; title: Le Me Go --; title: Attending --; title: The Good Man --; title: Just Cheese --; title: Backsliding --; title: The Worm --; title: Preservation --; title: Green Tea --; title: Joy Pasture --; title: Lists --; title: Olives --; title: Southward Bound --; title: White --; title: The Beauty Mark --; title: The Shady Side of the Street.