by Marly Swick
University of Iowa Press, 1990
Cloth: 978-0-87745-296-6 | eISBN: 978-1-60938-009-0
Library of Congress Classification PS3569.W467H65 1990
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54

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These stories are delicate seismographic meditations on disaster and its aftershocks. The characters are survivors, digging their way out of the past, shaken but hopeful. Despite all their tragic losses, there is a pervasive sense of humor, hope, and forgiveness: abandonment leads ultimately to reunion, grief to solace. This is contemporary America—a jigsaw puzzle of fragmented families constantly picking up the pieces and fitting themselves together in new ways to form unforgettable pictures.



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