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(0)Becky Mandelbaum
Author
Publisher
S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"2016. The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals is in trouble. Ariel discovers that her mother Mona's animal sanctuary in Western Kansas has not only been the target of anti-Semitic hate crimes, it is also for sale, due to hidden financial ruin. Ariel, living a new life in progressive Lawrence, and estranged from her mother for six years, returns to her childhood home - and finds her first love, a ranch hand named Gideon, still working at the Bright...
Author
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The eleven beautifully crafted stories in Bad Kansas reveal the complicated underbelly of the country's most flown-over state and the quirky characters that call it home. In this darkly humorous collections, Kansas becomes a state of mind as Mandelbaum's characters struggle to define their relationship to home and what it means to stay or leave, to hold on or let go. When a deserate woman finds herself on a date with a rugged man with whom she has...