In this light : new and selected stories / Melanie Rae Thon.

Author/Creator:

Thon, Melanie Rae.

Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 2011.

Format/Description:

Book
270 p. ; 21 cm.

Subjects:

West (U.S.) -- Fiction.

Form/Genre:

Short stories.

Summary:

Features short stories that include a drunk driver's hit-and-run accident, a grieving slave who kills the white child in her care, and two abandoned kids dancing in front of a neighbor's Christmas lights.

Contents:

Iona moon
Punishment
Nobody's daughters ; In these woods ; Xmas, Jamaica Plain ; Home
First, body
Father, lover, deadman, dreamer
Necessary angels
Heavenly creatures for wandering children and their delinquent mother
Confession for Raymond Good Bird
Tu B'Shvat for the drowned and the saved.

ISBN:

9781555975852 (pbk.)
1555975852 (pbk.)

OCLC:

681499630

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