Twelve Women in a Country Called America - Hardcover
In this collection, her tenth work of fiction, Kelly Cherry delivers twelve stories about women who are struggling to find their way through not only the everyday workings of life, but also through the maze of self. From a young woman’s piano lesson that takes a terrible turn, to an elderly woman’s last breath, Twelve Women in a Country Called America takes readers on a journey sometimes dark, sometimes funny, and always enlightening.
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These stories are thrilling to read. They are bold and exploratory, truthful, and unflinching. Kelly Cherry is a magnificent storyteller!
—Bobbie Ann Mason, author of In Country and The Girl in the Blue Beret
In these richly imagined stories, from New Orleans to Huntsville to Memphis to Richmond—all around the South and back again—women are working through their thwarted lives: afraid, defiant, longing, loving. Kelly Cherry’s heroines are dramatically different from each other, but they are all coming to terms with the human condition in ways that reveal that condition to the reader. Funny, tender, surprising and exact, this is a stunning collection from a writer at the top of her form.
—Janet Burroway, author of Losing Tim: A Memoir
Kelly Cherry is a writer's writer, a master storyteller who writes about people we recognize in a style so easy we're surprised to find ourselves suddenly in deep, deep water. The past often collides with the present in these complicated families, almost-families, and relationships; many of the stories turn on those moments when we find out who we truly are, or who we will become. Deeply psychological yet compulsively readable, these stories are like real stories told to us by a trusted friend.
—Lee Smith, author of Guests of Earth: A Novel and The Last Girls
Twelve Women in a Country Called America is the latest instance of Kelly Cherry’s straight shooting about the often crooked kind we are. Clearly, ours are lives wobbling out of round. Herein, women and men, southerners every one, cleave to lies that sustain and stories that end happily. Kelly Cherry knows better. Kelly Cherry, going long or short between margins, is a national treasure.
—Lee K. Abbott, author of All Things, All at Once: New & Selected Stories
In Twelve Women in a Country Called America, Kelly Cherry deftly captures the lives of a remarkably diverse group of women from the American south. Each woman we meet in these stories is distinctly drawn and presented with heart, wit, and wisdom. That Kelly Cherry, one of our most talented and prolific contemporary writers, can show us our world and the women who populate it in such moving and memorable ways may not be a surprise, but, page after page, it’s an absolute pleasure and a gift.
— Judith Claire Mitchell, author of A Reunion of Ghosts: A Novel
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- PublisherPress 53
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1941209556
- ISBN 13 9781941209554
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages232
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