Get a grip
By: Kathy Flann
Edition: Edition: first.
Publisher: Texas Review Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Huntsville, Texas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781680030518
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: The stories in Get a Grip depict a range of imagined lives. There are Estonian brothers trekking from their blighted neighborhood to a college interview. There's a TV meteorite hunter in town to search for otherworldly treasure. We meet a widow addicted to physical pain and a successful ad executive who loses all his worldly possessions in one day. All of the characters work out their struggles in the Baltimore region, channeling, in turns, the area's charm, its despair, its humor, its self-doubt, its compassion. Get a Grip is a book about who we are when the cameras are off and the phone has died.--
Table of contents: title: Neuropathy; title: Half a brother; title: Little big show; title: Get a grip; title: Homecoming; title: Leaving Reno; title: Show of force.