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Difficult women

Call Number

  • FICTION GAY (OSH)

Edition

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Grove Press, 2017.

Physical Description

viii, 260 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"Difficult Women is a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection. The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the elder sister's marriage. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other. A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer. A black engineer moves to Upper Michigan for a job and faces the malign curiosity of her colleagues and the difficulty of leaving her past behind"--

Contents

  • I will follow you
  • Water, all its weight
  • The mark of Cain
  • Difficult women
  • FLORIDA
  • La negra blanca
  • Baby arm
  • North country
  • How
  • Requiem for a glass heart
  • In the event of my father's death
  • Break all the way down
  • Bad priest
  • Open marriage
  • A pat
  • Best features
  • Bone density
  • I am a knife
  • The sacrifice of darkness
  • Noble things
  • Strange gods.

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