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Genre/Form: | Detective and mystery stories Fictional literature short stories Detective and mystery fiction Short stories Mystery fiction Nouvelles |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kyle Minor |
ISBN: | 9780979312366 0979312361 |
OCLC Number: | 225874050 |
Notes: | "Including 'A day meant to do less, ' a Best American Mystery Stories 2008 selection."--Cover. |
Description: | 223 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | San Diego County Credit Union poinsettia bowl party -- Day meant to do less -- Love story -- Goodbye Hills, hello night -- Navy man -- In the Devil's territory. |
Responsibility: | Kyle Minor. |
More information: | |
Local System Bib Number: | .b29925654 |
Abstract:
A schoolteacher escapes East Berlin at night, swimming the Spree River three times carrying elderly relatives on her back, so she can make her way to West Palm Beach, Florida, and "ruin the lives of fifth grade boys." A young husband reckons with the likelihood that his wife's troubled pregnancy will end with her death before Christmas. A preacher bathes his ill and elderly mother, not knowing that she has mistaken him for the long-lost cousin she watched murder his brother in her father's tobacco field. In six stories that read like novels in miniature, Kyle Minor plumbs the depths of human mystery, where they meet our kindnesses and our cruelties, our generosities and our pettiness.

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