Title:
This close : stories / Jessica Francis Kane.
ISBN:
9781555976361
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Minneapolis, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
179 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
Lucky boy -- American lawn -- Lesson -- First sale -- Double take -- Night class -- Evidence of old repairs -- Essentials of acceleration -- Next in line -- Stand-in -- Old beginning -- Local birds.
Summary:
"A middle-aged woman, irritated with her wealthy young neighbor's yard improvements, offers a corner of her lawn to a Croatian immigrant who wants a vegetable garden. A daughter accompanies her father to Israel, where, seeing a new side of him away from her mother, she makes an unusual bargain. In twelve stories about the difficult, sometimes impermeable boundaries between friends, neighbors, and family relations, Jessica Francis Kane explores just how close we can come to love, success, happiness, and forgiveness."--P. [4] of cover.
Geographic Term:
OCLC Number:
ocn794367474
Availability:
Apple Valley - Galaxie~1
