Fiction

ISBN: 9781950564330
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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Two events tie together the nine stories in Monic Ductan's gorgeous debut: the 1920s lynching of Ida Pearl Crawley and the 1980s drowning of a high school basketball player, Lucy Boudreaux. Both forever shape the people and the place of Muscadine,... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822947998
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
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Small in Real Life invokes the myth and melancholy of Southern California glamor, of starry-eyed women and men striving for their own Hollywood shimmer and the seamy undersides and luxurious mystique of the Golden State. Exiled to a Malib... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822967101
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize
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Happiness and connection prove fickle in this debut collection of eleven linked stories introducing Babbie and Donnie. She is a thrice-divorced former call girl, and he is a sobriety-challenged trucker turned yogi. Along with their community of ex... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822967118
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize
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Poised on the precipice of mystery and longing, each character in Now You Know It All also hovers on the brink of discovery - and decision. Set in small-town North Carolina, or featuring eager Southerners venturing afar, these stories capture the ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780813195353
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
First published in 1940, James Still's masterful novel has become a classic. It is the story, seen through the eyes of a boy, of three years in the life of his family and their kin. He sees his parents pulled between the meager farm with its sense... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781626430938
Published by : Bridge 21 Publications
Series: Bridge21 Contemporary Chinese Literature
Volume: 2
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Nothing but the Now is a collection of seven stories, most of them about chance encounters in the world, the consequences of greed and temptation, the inescapable past, and moral dilemmas that seem to be tailored to each character’s flaws... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780813196978
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series
"Even in death, who has ownership over Black women's bodies?"

Questions like this sit between the lines of this stunning collection of stories that engage the nuance of African women's histories. Their history is not just one thing, there... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819500427
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
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Native puppeteers from the White Earth Reservation travel to the 1962 World's Fair.

In the summer of 1962, a group of young Native American puppeteers travel in a converted school bus from the White Earth Reservation to the Century 21 Exp... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819500434
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
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Native puppeteers from the White Earth Reservation travel to the 1962 World's Fair.

In the summer of 1962, a group of young Native American puppeteers travel in a converted school bus from the White Earth Reservation to the Century 21 Exp... .... Learn More