false <![CDATA[Stranger]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1244383525m/6084456.jpg 6084456 1 A mother's illness and early death is only the beginning of the story of Stranger, Laura Sims' second collection. This is a death whose presence and particulars are felt and inscribed, and which achieves an agency, a purview, a resistance. We feel the loss from all angles, even as Sims' episodic, quicksilver narrative moves up and through a mother's life and its incompletion, her apprehension in the face of death, a surviving child's guilt and the adult child's attempts at comprehension of who/what the mother is, now that she's gone. In the end there is a hopeful hopelessness in approaching Eternity. Laura Sims' delicacy and agility are equal to her forbearance, and all are up to the remarkable task of recounting a life and afterlife. 6261239 1 4 2009 Stranger total:19|5:15|4:1|3:2|2:1|1:0| 19 87 27 3 5 0 false false Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 01 14:09:59 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 14:14:49 -0700 2009 In Stranger, Laura Sims enters the territory of the irreconcilable, where the intimacy that lies de...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 14:33:56 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 14:43:19 -0800 2009
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