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What you've been missing / Janet Desaulniers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Desaulniers, Janet, 1954-
- Series:
- John Simmons short fiction award.
- The John Simmons short fiction award
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (141 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Populated by characters as frank as their midwestern settings, What You've Been Missing, Janet Desaulniers's debut collection, explores the unsettling moments when ordinary life ceases to exist. Parents, confused by their five-year-old's refusal to sit up in her chair, lift her blouse to find she's been beaten. A woman returns from a shopping trip just in time to see her husband kissing a young co-worker. A young husband constructs an elaborate and romanticized version of his new marriage and then ruins it in one gesture. These singular moments propel each person on a journey beyond the realm
- Contents:
- Where we all should have been
- The good fight
- Everyone is wearing a hat
- Real love
- The next day
- Mothers without children
- Roll
- Never, ever, always
- After Rosa Parks
- Who knows more than you.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-58729-513-X
- OCLC:
- 82692498
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