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Refusing to buckle under the pressures of family and political traumas, the sojourners in this collection are unified by themes of creative expression and of love–how we define it, how we are impelled by it, and how we are lifted by it.
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"This novella and group of stories by Lucy Jane Bledsoe will move and surprise and thrill you. She brings us right into her characters' lives, taking us on unexpected journeys. Through it all,the empowered and vulnerablewomen in this lively fictional world continually find themselves, so as readers welearn more about survival and are reminded of hope. We find ourselves delightfully renewed." - Allen Gee, author ofMy Chinese-America
"From Antarctica to suburbia to the ancient past and a post-apocalyptic future, these tales of kick-ass women adventurers and survivor girls are big-hearted, breathtaking, and profound. Reading Lava Falls is like meeting an animal in the wild: I was rapt, unable to turn away, with no idea what would happen next." - Micah Perks, author of What Becomes Us
Pages | 248 |
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Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 14 |
Date Published | 28 Sep 2018 |
Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press |
Subject/s | Fiction   |
- Girl with Boat
- Life Drawing
- Poker
- Wildcat
- Skylark
- The Found Child
- The Antarctic
- My Beautiful Awakening
- Wolf
- The End of Jesus
- Lava Falls
- The We of Me