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These stories amount to something more than a celebration of the
holidays dotting our calendars from month to month. Even though
holidays can occasion a return to the familiar, these stories
challenge traditional associations. Each story serves to complicate
how we observe the human observation of holidays and offers a
nuanced understanding of related themes such as family and
motherhood, travel, grief and mourning processes, and memory. More
generally, holidays are days of observance, and that aspect alone
offers a lot to unpack.
In the cadence of a Texas drawl or the whisper of a midday kiss,
these stories by Gail Galloway Adams capture untidy lives in which
the pain of living is confounded with a grin. From the yoga
instructor with her Earthshoes and mantras to the Texas aunt who
wills herself insane, the characters in Adams's stories boldly face
the sorrows and strains of everyday life, seeking relief in humor
and redemption in words. The Purchase of Order depicts characters
from Germany to Georgia, men and women attempting to find meaning
within memory, who take joy in giving of themselves.
In the cadence of a Texas drawl or the whisper of a midday kiss,
these stories by Gail Galloway Adams capture untidy lives in which
the pain of living is confounded with a grin. From the yoga
instructor with her Earthshoes and mantras to the Texas aunt who
wills herself insane, the characters in Adams's stories boldly face
the sorrows and strains of everyday life, seeking relief in humor
and redemption in words. The Purchase of Order depicts characters
from Germany to Georgia, men and women attempting to find meaning
within memory, who take joy in giving of themselves.
Travel, and the exhilarating experiences it offers us, is the
shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among
the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery
O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series. More than seventy volumes,
which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the
Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging,
often groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this
anthology on childhood-and for planned anthologies on such topics
as family, gender and sexuality, animals, and more. Travel can
whisk us away to craggy mountainsides and sunny coastlines or
bustling cities and mysterious jungles. Travel can excite and
rejuvenate or intimidate and overwhelm. These sixteen stories
reflect upon our immense, intriguing world and our explorations of
it, whether you choose to follow the beaten path or abandon it.
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