Better times
short stories
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Word Count
35,000 words, Guess
Page Count
140 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101496207874
- ISBN-139781496207876
- Library of Congress Control Number2018014270
- OCLC Control Number1031419850
- Better World Books9781496207876
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL26968217M
Classifications
- DDC813/.6
- LCCPS3602.A8935 A6 2018
- LCCPS3602.A8935A6 2018
and 1 more
- LCCPS3602.A8939 A6 2018
Description
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the stories in Better Times focus on what's happening in places people don't think to look. Women, sometimes displaced, often lonely, are at the heart of these stories. In Better Times Sara Batkie focuses on the moments in women's lives when the wider world is wrapped up in other matters: a father and daughter, separated by time and an ocean, dreaming of each other; a girl in a home for "troubled women" imagining the journey of the first dog in space; a phantom breast returning to haunt a woman after her mastectomy; a young woman giving birth to a litter of eggs. Such are the ordinary women weathering extraordinary circumstances in Better Times.
Series Statement
- Prairie Schooner book prize in fiction
Other Editions
- Better times
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