Meet behind Mars / stories by Renee Simms.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simms, Renee, author.

Series:

Made in Michigan writers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American--21st century.

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories, American.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

131 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Renee Simms's debut short story collection is a revealing look at how geography, memory, ancestry, and desire influence our personal relationships. In many of her stories, Simms exposes her own interest in issues concerning time and space. For example, in "Rebel Airplanes," an L.A. engineer works by day on city sewers and by night on R-C planes that she yearns to launch into the cosmos. The character-driven stories in Meet Behind Mars offer beautiful insight into the emotional lives of caretakers, auto workers, dancers, and pawn shop employees. In "High Country," a frustrated would-be novelist considers ditching her family in the middle of the desert. In "Dive," an adoptee returns to her adoptive home, still haunted by histories she does not know. Simms writes from the voice of women and girls who struggle under structural oppression and draws from the storytelling tradition best represented by writers like Edward P. Jones, whose characters have experiences that are specific to black Americans living in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Contents:

High Country

Dive

The Art of Heroine Worship

The Cows of Lantau

The Body When Buoyant

Who Do You Love?

You Can Kiss All of That Bye-Bye

American Industrial Physics

Rebel Airplanes

How to Leave the Midwest

Meet Behind Mars.

ISBN:

9780814345122

0814345123

OCLC:

1034691758