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    612-822-4611

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ActivAmerica

ActivAmerica

Cass, Meagan

Paperback

Series: Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, Book 16

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1574416944
ISBN13: 9781574416947
Publisher: Univ Of North Texas Pr
Published: Nov 15 2017
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Drawing from fairy tales, ghost stories, and science-fiction, the stories in ActivAmerica explore how we confront (and exert) power and re-imagine ourselves through sports and athletic activities. A group of girls starts an illicit hockey league in a conservative suburb. A recently separated woman must run a mile a day in order to maintain her new corporate health insurance. Children impacted by environmental disaster create a mutant soccer team. Two sisters are visited by an Olympic gymnast who demands increasingly dangerous moves from them. Sports allow the characters to form communities on soccer fields and hidden lakes, in overgrown backyards and across Ping-Pong tables. Throughout the collection, however, athletic risk also comes with unexpected, often unsettling results.

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