Boundless deep, and other stories / Gen Del Raye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Del Raye, Gen, author.

Series:

The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner book prize in fiction

Language:

English

Genre:

short stories.

Short stories

Short stories.

Physical Description:

148 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Boundless Deep and Other Stories is a portrait of a family that holds together despite everything. By turns introspective, surreal, and bitingly funny, this collection of linked short stories spans seven decades across Japan and the United States and shows the tenacity of relationships fractured by language and distance. At the funeral of her old boss, a grandmother confronts the legacy of the draft letters she delivered as a girl during World War II. Facing the loss of his job, a father becomes the caricature strangers have always believed him to be. A graduate student living far from home is worn down by the reality of what it takes to save even a small piece of the world. Along the way, we meet communist revolutionary Shigenobu Fusako hiding out in a Tokyo hotel, submariner and war criminal Nishina Sekio in his tortured dreams, and Edwin, your half-dolphin friend, wreaking havoc in a public pool. Written in the compressed style of Amy Hempel and Lucia Berlin, these stories examine characters whose struggles submerge them, weighing them down from every angle, until they can finally float free. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1

Hideto, in Motion and at Rest

Hideto Worn Down in Gainesville, 2001

My Mother Takes Me to a Public Bath

Yukari Kneeling in My Mother's Garden, 1994

Chie and George, 2015

Half-Blind

My Father Will Not Admit He Has Become a Clown

2

The Mystery of Animal Grief

Nishina Sekio in a Tunnel Alone

Preparations, 2015

Home Burial

Housefire

Suicide Drills, 1945

The Grandma Invasion

We Are a Woman Bombed / A Picture of Grace

Nishina Sekio in a Broken Machine

Harvest Mouse

Hack Science

A Shark Is an Animal That Blushes When You Touch Its Face

Synonyms for Climate Change

Boundless Deep

My Grandmother Stops Some Nights on Her Way to the Outhouse to Watch a Ghost Climb Down to the Sea

Nishina Sekio Imprisoned in Dreams

3

My Father and Shigenobu Fusako in the Hallway of the Hotel New Otani, 1980

Or Go Further Back

Elastico

What My Mother Doesn't Say

The Failings of Our Fathers

Incredible Lifelike Whale Comes Up for Air, Again and Again

Acknowledgments

Selected Sources.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781496237453

1496237455

OCLC:

1370487077