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The maleness of God
Winner, Fiction Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards Finalist, Book of the Year/First Book Award/Saskatoon Book Award; Saskatchewan Book Awards
The Maleness of God is a collection of tough, brilliantly crafted stories that pull no punches about the rugged terrain in the emotional landscape of men and women. These women struggle with relationships - with husbands, and lovers, and parents who won't let them go. They fight with society's, and their own, judgement of their worth should they happen to be childless adults. Here are women who discover daily how difficult it is to share the planet with that other sex. But here too are women who connive, who hurt, who are confused about their own feelings and motivations. Women who come to realize that men's feelings, as incomprehensible as they may sometimes be, are as real, as mysterious and as compelling as their own.
"Baker's stories are funny, sad, and thought-provoking. But what makes them memorable is their humanity, their rightness - the nuances of experience that provoke in the reader the urge to say, 'Yes!'" -The Winnipeg Free Press
The Maleness of God is a collection of tough, brilliantly crafted stories that pull no punches about the rugged terrain in the emotional landscape of men and women. These women struggle with relationships - with husbands, and lovers, and parents who won't let them go. They fight with society's, and their own, judgement of their worth should they happen to be childless adults. Here are women who discover daily how difficult it is to share the planet with that other sex. But here too are women who connive, who hurt, who are confused about their own feelings and motivations. Women who come to realize that men's feelings, as incomprehensible as they may sometimes be, are as real, as mysterious and as compelling as their own.
"Baker's stories are funny, sad, and thought-provoking. But what makes them memorable is their humanity, their rightness - the nuances of experience that provoke in the reader the urge to say, 'Yes!'" -The Winnipeg Free Press
282 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1999
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August 15, 2016
People like you and me, normal situations in ordinary lives. It is all so well written and unwrapped that it seems extraordinary! I could identify with them all! Loved 'Mobiles' and am tempted to make my own to visualize my life and feelings trying to balance it all in a pretty piece of art.
But it was 'Bathing dad' that really got to me. Being at the age where we are fearful of our parent's aging and starting to think about our own.
But it was 'Bathing dad' that really got to me. Being at the age where we are fearful of our parent's aging and starting to think about our own.
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