Tell the world you're a wildflower : stories / Jennifer Horne ; cover image, Ann Feeney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horne, Jennifer, author.

Contributor:

Feeney, Ann, cover designer.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Southern States--Fiction.

Women.

Southern States--Fiction.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University Alabama Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tell the World You're a Wildflower is a collection of loosely interwoven stories in the voices of southern women and girls of different ages and backgrounds. Beginning with the youngest characters and ending with the oldest, the stories encompass plastic surgery and white supremacists, family secrets and family trees, the United Daughters of the Confederacy and a young writer who describes her work in progress as "the bastard love-child of William Faulkner and Alice Walker."In Tell the World You're a Wildflower, each character must decide what to tell, whether to tell it, and to whom to tell i

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; I; Blue; Truth or Consequences; Sixteen Going On; Mexico; "Just Friends" with Jesus; II; Ted and Mary; Noli Me Tangere; Business or Pleasure; Other People's Dogs; Needs Work; Sandra; The Other Grandparents; III; String-up; Residue; Be Careful What You Wish For; Compound; No Legacy Is So Rich As Honesty; 1957; Arkansas Blacks; IV; UDC; Lost and Found; January; Why I Live at the Albert Pike Hotel; Trompe L'Oeil

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8777-3

OCLC:

887802673