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A gracefully disconcerting collection of stories by the winner of the 2005 Narrative Prize. Wavering between fidelity and freedom, the women in this sparkling debut collection deal with emotional damage and unhealed heartbreak by plunging into unusual, often bizarre, relationships. In Pia Z. Ehrhardt¹s stories, adultery and impropriety become disquietingly mundane. Mothers expect daughters to be complicit in their love affairs, children seek shelter in families that aren¹t their own, fathers court their daughters, a couple enters into a marriage that lasts thirty days a year, and a young girl takes to the road with the simple guy who bags groceries at Piggly Wiggly while her mother imagines her safely at school. Beautifully restrained and shot through with tenderness, Famous Fathers and Other Stories establishes Ehrhardt as both a leading practitioner of the short story and an empathetic interpreter of the lives of wounded people who-instead of asking for what they want-take what is offered.

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Famous Fathers and Other Stories

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The stories in this book all share a common, tightly-focused theme; Pia is an auteur on the subject of women making co...more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 19 14:41:30 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 05:53:35 -0700 2007
This is not the 19th century—there is no awakening. This woman is not about to head into the ocean. She’s already there, already r...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 12:19:08 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 09:39:52 -0700 2007 stuck. Ms. Ehrhardt doesn't ask us to pity her charact...more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 25 01:42:31 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 28 23:19:23 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Apr 13 10:36:02 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 20 07:25:48 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 13 10:36:02 -0700 2009 ]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 23:20:16 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 23:45:18 -0700 2007
So I shall simply echo a character in one of these short stories, a character who expresses herself by quoting fa...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 19:19:11 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 29 11:51:37 -0700 2007

This collection gave me the delight of stories with true depth, of characters moving within a fully realized world; these are stories with warp and woof, beautiful after a first reading, gorgeous after a second, ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 25 17:40:36 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 10 19:25:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 20 03:49:12 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 05:53:03 -0700 2007
This is not the 19th century—there is no awakening. This woman is not about to head into the ocean. She’s already there, already r...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jun 20 17:54:15 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 14:08:06 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Dec 11 05:56:50 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 11 06:05:00 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 20:11:55 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 22:32:03 -0800 2008
I want to say first that I don't tend/expect to enjoy books by women. I don't even tend to like female characters in books. At this point I have only one female author at a five star ranking, Ayn Rand and perhaps ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 13:15:52 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 13:20:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 14:59:04 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 14:59:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jul 23 06:15:09 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 23 06:19:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 06 16:41:48 -0700 2007 Sat Feb 09 08:15:30 -0800 2008 0 1 false false Sun Nov 25 17:37:19 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 24 05:04:06 -0800 2007
The book is trapped in my car, however. We are experiencing a blizzard at the moment. I may have to put on my boots and dig it out.]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 11 02:58:59 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 10:28:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6502785