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| Genre/Form: | Short stories Fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Belle Boggs |
| ISBN: | 9781555975586 1555975585 |
| OCLC Number: | 441136687 |
| Notes: | "Boggs is the winner of the 2009 Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize for fiction ... awarded by the Middlebury College Bread Loaf Writers' Conference"--P. [4] of cover. |
| Description: | ix, 225 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Deer season -- Good news for a hard time -- Imperial chrysanthemum -- Opportunity -- It won't be long -- Jonas -- Buckets of rain -- Homecoming -- Election day -- Mattaponi Queen -- Shelter -- Youngest daughter. |
| Responsibility: | Belle Boggs. |
Abstract:
Set on the Mattaponi Indian Reservation and in its surrounding counties, the stories in this linked collection detail the lives of rural men and women with stark realism and plainspoken humor. A young military couple faces a future shadowed by injury and untold secrets. A dying alcoholic attempts to reconcile with his estranged children. And an elderly woman's nurse weathers life with her irascible charge by making payments on a decrepit houseboat--the Mattaponi Queen. The land is parceled into lots, work opportunities are few, and the remaining inhabitants must choose between desire and necessity as they navigate the murky stream of possession, love, and everything in between.
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