Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Karen
Brown's "Little Sinners, and Other Stories" features a sad, strange
mosaic of women and men grappling with the loss and pain of
everyday existence, people inhabiting a suburban landscape haunted
by ghosts: a mother who leaps from a ridge, a mistress found at the
bottom of the Connecticut River, a father who dresses in a pale
blue-custom suit--and disappears. The dead leave behind postcards,
houses, bottles of sherry, bones. They become local legends, their
stories part of the characters' own: an expectant mother in an
isolated cottage on Long Island Sound uncovers an unsettling secret
in her backyard; a troubled housewife is lured to a dinner party by
a teenage girl whose mother has vanished under mysterious
circumstances; a woman and her lover swim the pools of their
neighborhood under cover of darkness; a young heiress struggles
with mortality and the abandonments in her past.
These stories capture the domestic world in all its blighted
promise--a world where women's roles in housekeeping, marriage,
childbirth, and sex have been all too well defined, and where the
characters fashion, recklessly and passionately, their own methods
of escape.
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