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A Clear View of the Southern Sky - Stories (Hardcover)
Series: Story River Books
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A Clear View of the Southern Sky reveals women in the twenty-first
century doing what women have always done in pursuit of life,
liberty, and happiness. In each of the ten tales from southern
storyteller Mary Hood, women have come by circumstances and choice
to the very edge of their known worlds. Some find courage to winnow
and move on; others seek the patience to risk and to stay. Along
the way hearts, bonds, speed limits, fingernails, and the Ten
Commandments get broken. Dust settles, but these women do not. In
the title story, a satellite dish company promises that
happiness--or at least access to its programming--requires just a
TV and A Clear View of the Southern Sky. The short story itself
reveals the journey of a Hispanic woman whose mission is to
assassinate a mass murderer, an agenda triggered by post-traumatic
stress wrought by seeing the murderer's cynical grin on a news
program. We follow her into the shadow of an enormous satellite
dish on a roof across the street from the courthouse and ultimately
into a women's prison English-as-Second-Language class where she
must confront her life. She has slept but never dreamed, and now
she wakes. In other stories Hood introduces us to a kindergarten
teacher, stunned by a student's blurted-out question, as she
discovers her deepest vocation and the mystery of its source. We
meet a widow who befriends a young neighbour, only to realize they
must keep secrets from each other and hold fast to their hope. A
woman trucker discovers the depth of her love as she imagines her
cell phone calls and her sweetheart's own messages winging their
way, tower to tower, along her interstate route. Two stories deal
with one man and two of his wives and how they learn the lessons
only love can teach about the reach and limitations of ownership
and forever. The collection concludes with the novella
""Seambusters,"" in which a diverse cast of women workers in a
rural Georgia mill sew camouflage for U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
The women are part of a larger purpose, and they know it. When the
shadow of death passes over the factory, each woman and the entire
community find out what it really means to have American Pride. New
York Times best-selling writer and Story River Books editor at
large Pat Conroy provides a foreword to the collection.
General
Imprint: |
University of South Carolina Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Story River Books |
Release date: |
September 2015 |
Authors: |
Mary Hood
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Foreword by: |
Pat Conroy
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-61117-500-4 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-61117-500-3 |
Barcode: |
9781611175004 |
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