Title: This place you return to is home
First published: 1999
Description: In these stories, mothers escape to remote country villages, making prisoners of their children. A young man is made an indentured servant by his father, his violence atoning for loneliness. A wife comes to fear the closeness of her own husband's attentions. Haunted by the past, these stories explore the paradox of home as a place of both departure and return, comprising a range of voices portrayed with breathtaking skill.
Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, Home, Manners and customs, Fiction, short stories (single author), Erzählung, Zuhause
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3557.U4864 T47 1999