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The Disobedience of Water: Stories and Novellas
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9780688178451
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: Oct 3 2000
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Evoking passion and heartbreak., intelligence and unapologetic humanity, these eight beautifully crafted stories explore the boundary conditions between the self and others. Although social realities -- racial and ethnic tensions, sexual harassment, and abuse -- make up their background, these are really love stories in which people discover and forgive one another. A daughter finds her father's kindness extends beyond her and their family; a wife discovers and forgives the affair between her husband and best friend; and, in the title story which takes the form of a letter to an almost-lover, the narrator winds through swirling eddies of memory and language to relate her present and past lives and the loves that have informed them.
Written with a masterful sureness of hand and heart, these captivating, intimate stories display Sena Jeter Naslund's extraordinary presence as one of today's most rewarding writers of fiction.
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