Title: Useful gifts
Description: "These eleven short stories 'all have Ruth Zimmer as the protagonist, the first ten being episodes of her childhood in Manhattan -- interpreting forher deaf-mute parents whose three children have normal hearing and speech ... In the last story Ruth, now living on the West Coast, returns to New York ... and discovers that {her father} has been hoarding money by denying his wife and children an easier existence." Antioch Rev.
Subjects: American Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author)