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Author Hollander, Jessica, 1982- author.

Title In these times the home is a tired place : stories / Jessica Hollander
Published Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 141 pages)
Series Number 12 in the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction
Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction series ; no. 12.
Contents You are a good girl I love you -- If we miss the beginning -- This kind of happiness -- I would stop -- What became of what she had made -- The year we are twenty-three -- Put the animals to bed -- March on -- The good luck doll -- In these times the home is a tired place -- How to be a prisoner -- Like falling down and laughing -- I now pronounce you -- Buttons -- January on the ground -- Ruckus, exhaustion -- Staring contests -- The problem with moving -- Blooms lined up like this
Summary Jessica Hollander's debut collection exposes a culture that glorifies and disparages traditional domesticity, where people's confusion, apathy, and anxiety about the institutions of marriage and family often drive them to self-destruction
Notes "2013 Winner, Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction."
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Subject Young women -- Fiction
FICTION -- General.
Young women
Genre/Form Fiction
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1574415387
9781574415384
9781306135245
1306135249
Other Titles Short stories. Selections