How We Know Them
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This multi-genre collection—including fiction, flash fiction, and a play—explores the roots of connection implied in familial relationships and structures. These works question—sometimes stepping into the supernatural to do so—how family relationships and structures can thrive despite hardship and loss, or fail in spite of their outward appearance of faultlessness. Some child characters in these works seek to establish identities in fragile familial networks, and others wholly reject the roles demanded by those familial networks. Married couples struggle to define the nature of their partnership. Separated family members seek to reestablish lost bonds, to endure painful bonds, and to create new bonds with whatever person, animal, or company seems most amenable. Many of the pieces in this collection take place in Midwestern communities and embody the reliance on and need for connection in the region’s sprawling, sparse landscape.
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Critical Introduction -- A House for Bluebirds and Black Snakes -- Family Talk -- Art's Chips -- Only Children -- A Good Fit -- Ropes -- Albert Flemming Goes for a Run -- Before They Vanished in the Sun -- The Singer, a ten-minute play -- Spirits of Unknown Providence -- The Inn at Crescent Mountain -- St. Paul’s Hill
xiii, 184 pages
xiii, 184 pages
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M.F.A.