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Ordination

Ordination

Kaukonen, Scott A.

Paperback

Series: Ohio State Univ Prize in Short Fiction

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0814257313
ISBN13: 9780814257319
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Jan 29 2021
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

If my mother were to tell the story . . . So begins the title piece in this debut collection of short fiction, eight stories that explore the gap between the stories we tell ourselves and the stories we have lived. In Punitive Damages, a father, the beneficiary of a huge financial settlement in compensation for his son's death, must confront the truth of the life that the son's death has provided. In Punnett's Squares, winner of the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, an adopted son seeks to prove, against all evidence to the contrary, that his adoptive father is in fact his biological father. In Induction Ceremony, a small-town basketball hero returns to his hometown no longer a man but now a woman, and his onetime teammate-and-friend must reconsider who they were and who they are now. In the pair of pieces that bookend the collection, Ordination and Be a Missionary, a Baptist preacher's son must reconcile the distance between the evidence of things seen and the evidence of things unseen.

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