| Description |
160 pages ; 22 cm. |
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| Series |
Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction |
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Kansas Notable Book, 2022.
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Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
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| Summary |
"In this scary, funny, and slyly political short story collection, Kate McIntyre conjures a fever dream of contemporary Kansas. Boundaries between fantasy and reality blur, and grotesque acts birth strange progeny. A mother must choose between her children and her personal safety when her husband steadily excavates a moat around their country home, his very own little border wall. A Kansas politician grapples with international notoriety after an accident traps salt miners hundreds of feet underground--in the same salt mine where his brother was murdered. A bigot's newly transplanted liver gives him a taste for upbeat 80s dance tracks while nudging him toward darker plans. And, across several stories, we follow Miriam, a young overachiever hellbent on leaving her home state, who's lured back after college to teach elementary school in a rural community. In Culvert, Kansas, Miriam finds closed mouths and big secrets: the toxic waste storage for the battery factory leaches into the soil; the hog farm waste lagoons have sprung leaks; and her students, at turns psychic, lethargic, and aggressive, might not be human"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Awards |
Kansas Notable Book, 2022. |
| Subject |
Kansas -- Fiction.
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Kansas. (OCoLC)fst01204323
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| Genre/Form |
Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
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Short stories.
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Novels.
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Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780820360744 paperback |
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0820360740 paperback |
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9780820360751 electronic book |
| Standard No. |
40030803916 |
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