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The Missing Woman and Other Stories
The Missing Woman and Other Stories
- ISBN 13:
9781910409664
- ISBN 10:
1910409669
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 06/01/2015
- Publisher: Parthian Books
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Summary
Ploughshares, 2015 John C. Zacharis Award
Stories in The Missing Woman circle around women who are either literally missing – a mother in rehab, a daughter never born – or who are missing some metaphorical piece of themselves. A father tries to convince his uncompromising, anorexic daughter to want to live, a single woman lures men to her bed only to abandon them, and a marriage is shaken by a search party for a woman who’s disappeared. Burns asks questions about balance – safety with adventure, dreams with practicality, grief with joy – and challenges the reader to take a journey, make choices...
