You never get it back / Cara Blue Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Cara Blue, 1979- author.

Series:

John Simmons short fiction award

Language:

English

Genre:

Short stories.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

188 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2021]

Summary:

"The linked stories in Cara Blue Adams's precise and observant collection offer elegantly constructed glimpses of the life of Kate, a young woman from rural New England, moving between her childhood in the countryside of Vermont and her twenties and thirties in the northeast, southwest, and South in pursuit of a vocation, first as a research scientist and later as a writer. Place is a palpable presence: Boston in winter, Maine in summer, Virginia's lush hillsides, the open New Mexico sky. Along the way, we meet Kate's difficult bohemian mother and younger sister, her privileged college roommate, and the various men Kate dates as she struggles to define what she wants from the world on her own terms. Wryly funny and shot through with surprising flashes of anger, these smart, dreamy, searching stories show us a young woman grappling with social class, gender, ambition, violence, and the distance between longing and having. What we lose, these powerful, subtle stories show, is as much a part of us as what we keep"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I Met Loss the Other Day

You Never Get It Back

Charity

The Foothills of Tucson

Never Gotten, Never Had

The Sea Latch

At the Wrong Time, to the Wrong People

Shoulder Season

Metaphor

Vision

Seeing Clear

The Most Common State of Matter

Desert Light.

Other Format:

Online version: Adams, Cara Blue, 1979- You never get it back

ISBN:

9781609388133

1609388135

OCLC:

1245957127