Antonya Nelson
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Description
For years Birdy Stone was a bored schoolteacher in New Mexico, living off pot and novels. One day a woman asks her help in writing a book about two unexplained deaths in her family. As Birdy turns sleuth, she starts living for the first time. By the author of Talking in Bed.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In the title story, "Funny Once," a couple held together by bad behavior fall into a lie with their more responsible friends. In "The Village," a woman visits her father at a nursing home, recalling his equanimity at her teenage misdeeds and gaining a new understanding of his own past indiscretions. In another, when a troubled girl in the neighborhood goes missing, a mother worries increasingly about her teenage son's relationship with a bad-news...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Catherine and Oliver, young wife and older entrepreneurial husband, are negotiating their difference in age and a plethora of well-concealed secrets. Oliver, now in his sixties, is a serial adulterer and has just fallen giddily in love yet again. Catherine, seemingly placid and content, has ghosts of a past she scarcely remembers. When Catherine's long-forgotten high school friend dies and leaves Catherine the guardian of her teenage daughter, that...