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The Send-Away Girl
Barbara Sutton's quirky debut collection tracks the emotional journeys of characters struggling to find harmonious relationships with the people they are expected to love and be loved by. All too often, for Sutton's characters, such supposedly sacred relationships disappoint. In the end, it is not the loved ones who are loved, but the strangers met through chance encounter...more
Paperback, 216 pages
Published
October 15th 2009
by University of Georgia Press
(first published October 2004)
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from “Tenants”: “Widowhood did not stop my mother from being faithful in the same way that marriage did not stop my father from having girlfriends.”
The characters in this collection of short stories, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, aren’t wanted, by their families or their employers or anyone. Most of these stories were quirky, some so much so that I found myself reading and rereading many different passages to make sure that was really what the author said ...more
The characters in this collection of short stories, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, aren’t wanted, by their families or their employers or anyone. Most of these stories were quirky, some so much so that I found myself reading and rereading many different passages to make sure that was really what the author said ...more
Marvelous stuff! I highly recommned it.
Ann
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