Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction,
Boundless Deep, and Other Stories is a portrait of a family that
holds together despite everything. By turns introspective, surreal,
and bitingly funny, this collection of linked short stories spans
seven decades across Japan and the United States and shows the
tenacity of relationships fractured by language and distance. At
the funeral of her old boss, a grandmother confronts the legacy of
the draft letters she delivered as a girl during World War II.
Facing the loss of his job, a father becomes the caricature
strangers have always believed him to be. A graduate student living
far from home is worn down by the reality of what it takes to save
even a small piece of the world. Along the way, we meet communist
revolutionary Shigenobu Fusako hiding out in a Tokyo hotel,
submariner and war criminal Nishina Sekio in his tortured dreams,
and Edwin, a half-dolphin friend, wreaking havoc in a public pool.
Written in the compressed style of Amy Hempel and Lucia Berlin,
these stories examine characters whose struggles submerge them,
weighing them down from every angle, until they can finally float
free. Â
General
Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
Gen Del Raye
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
160 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4962-3745-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-4962-3745-5 |
Barcode: |
9781496237453 |
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