Title: Nora Jane
Description: Ellen Gilchrist's beloved Nora Jane stories, gathered together for the first time in a vibrant, hilarious, and deeply moving collection. Gilchrist fans have long enjoyed their glimpses of smart, willful Nora Jane Harwood in six previous collections. Here now are the collected Nora Jane stories--including a new novella--following her from scrappy adolescence in New Orleans through a delightfully eccentric life as wife, mother, and independent spirit in Berkeley, California.
Subjects: Nora Jane Harwood (Fictitious character), Mothers, American Short stories, Fiction, Eccentric families, Men cancer patients, Friendship, Happiness, Women, Fiction, short stories (single author)
Places: United States, Louisiana, New Orleans (La.), California, Berkeley (Calif.)
Time periods: 20th century, 21st century