TY - BOOK AU - Cooper,Desiree TI - Know the mother: stories T2 - Made in Michigan writers series SN - 9780814341490 AV - PS3603.O582615 K66 2016 U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Detroit, Michigan PB - Wayne State University Press KW - Motherhood KW - Fiction KW - Mother and child KW - Women KW - Social life and customs KW - Domestic fiction KW - fast KW - Short stories KW - lcgft N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -