Wake in the Night - Couverture souple

Krughoff, Laura

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0999845381 ISBN 13 : 9780999845387

Editeur : Arc Pair Press, 2019

Synopsis

“Laura Kroghoff’s stories have the lyrical exuberance of a Grace Paley in their bones.” ~ Christopher Grimes, author of The Pornographers and Public Works: Short Fiction and a Novella

Six stories span a century of rural American women. Marriages occur in the 1930s for lack of other opportunities; a young girl dances to Thriller for her friend’s older brother; a pastor remembers her childhood spent fantasizing that she is the prophet John the Baptist. In the small towns of the Midwest, girls and women dream of finding voice and forcing the world to listen.

“Spanning the last century with narrators aged 10 to 100, these stories reveal women struggling to fit a definition of womanhood that cannot contain them. By employing forms that break with convention in the same spirited ways her characters do, Laura Krughoff creates a world of stunning detail that examines just what people will do when expectations stifle truth. In Wake in the Night, we are reminded why we must push beyond easy categories and find new ways of understanding the roles we play.” ~ Paula Carter, author of No Relation

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Laura Krughoff's debut novel, My Brother's Name, was a finalist for a 2014 Lambda Literary Foundation Award. Her current novel project, based on her Pushcart Prize winning short story, "Halley's Comet," follows the personal and political lives of two women as they navigate the decade between Massachusetts legalizing same-sex marriage and the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the Defense of Marriage Act. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in publications ranging from literary journals such as The Threepenny Review to the Gay Voices section of The Huffington Post to the podcast of the Chicago-based story-telling performance collective Second Story. She teaches in the English Department and in the Gender and Queer Studies Program at the University of Puget Sound.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arc Pair Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0999845381
• ISBN 13: 9780999845387
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 102
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