Know the mother : stories /
Cooper, Desiree,
Know the mother : stories / by Desiree Cooper - ix, 123 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm - Made in Michigan writers series . - Made in Michigan writers series .
Witching hour -- Feeding the lions -- Away from the woodsman -- Ichthyophobe -- One candle left -- Laughter and caprice -- Queen of the Nile -- Reporting for duty, 1959 -- Know the mother -- Princess Lily -- Cartoon blue -- Night coming -- Mourning chair -- Ceiling -- Origins of sacrifice -- In the Ginza -- Home for the holidays -- Fifteen items or less -- Soft landing -- Something falls in the night -- Leftovers -- On the rim -- The disappearing girl -- Graveyard love -- Nocturne -- Postbellum love story -- Second sleep -- To the bone -- Requiem for a dress -- Open sky -- The massage
"In Know the Mother, author Desiree Cooper explores the complex archetype of the mother in all of her incarnations. In a collage of meditative stories, women find themselves wedged between their own yearnings and their roles as daughters, sisters, grandmothers, and wives. ... With her lyrical and carefully crafted prose, Cooper's stories provide truths without sermon and invite empathy without sentimentality."--Page 2 of cover
9780814341490 0814341497
2015954823
Motherhood--Fiction
Mother and child--Fiction
Women--Social life and customs--Fiction
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Short stories.
Domestic fiction.
Short stories.
PS3603.O582615 / K66 2016
813/.6
Know the mother : stories / by Desiree Cooper - ix, 123 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm - Made in Michigan writers series . - Made in Michigan writers series .
Witching hour -- Feeding the lions -- Away from the woodsman -- Ichthyophobe -- One candle left -- Laughter and caprice -- Queen of the Nile -- Reporting for duty, 1959 -- Know the mother -- Princess Lily -- Cartoon blue -- Night coming -- Mourning chair -- Ceiling -- Origins of sacrifice -- In the Ginza -- Home for the holidays -- Fifteen items or less -- Soft landing -- Something falls in the night -- Leftovers -- On the rim -- The disappearing girl -- Graveyard love -- Nocturne -- Postbellum love story -- Second sleep -- To the bone -- Requiem for a dress -- Open sky -- The massage
"In Know the Mother, author Desiree Cooper explores the complex archetype of the mother in all of her incarnations. In a collage of meditative stories, women find themselves wedged between their own yearnings and their roles as daughters, sisters, grandmothers, and wives. ... With her lyrical and carefully crafted prose, Cooper's stories provide truths without sermon and invite empathy without sentimentality."--Page 2 of cover
9780814341490 0814341497
2015954823
Motherhood--Fiction
Mother and child--Fiction
Women--Social life and customs--Fiction
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Short stories.
Domestic fiction.
Short stories.
PS3603.O582615 / K66 2016
813/.6