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1) Stranger
Author
Publisher
Fence Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A mother's illness and early death is only the beginning of the story of Stranger, Laura Sims' second collection. This is the death whose presence and particulars are felt and inscribed, and which achieves an agency, a purview, a resistance. We feel the loss from all angles, even as Sims' episodic, quicksilver narrative moves up and through a mother's life and its incompletion, her apprehension in the face of death, a surviving child's guilt and the...