Her Kind of Want
Set mainly in the small towns of Alabama, the stories in Her Kind of Want ache with the relentless longing of the poor, struggling, usually discarded southern women who tell us their lives—lives that seem to revolve around men whose only presence is their absence.Bebe, Luna, Melly, Little Hula, Dena. These are just a few of the women we meet in Jennifer Davis's award-w...more
Paperback, 152 pages
Published
August 21st 2002
by University Of Iowa Press
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This collection of short stories is a masterpiece. Each of the stories was written with such explicit and generous detail that it was such a pleasure to read. Jennifer Davis definitely knows everything that is going on in each of the worlds that she had created. The characters were so well developed that I felt like I knew them each personally for years. I didn't want the stories to end.
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