Separate Kingdoms - Valerie Laken
-20% with code BOOKS
Shipping in 10-16 days
30-day return policy
From Valerie Laken, the Pushcart Prizeโwinning author of Dream House, comes a powerful collection of short stories charting the divisions and collisions between cultures and nations, families and outsiders, and partners and misfits searching for love. Set in Russia and the United States, these are boldly innovative storiesโtales of fractured, misplaced characters moving beyond the borders of their isolation ... Full description
You May Also Like
Description
From Valerie Laken, the Pushcart Prizeโwinning author of Dream House, comes a powerful collection of short stories charting the divisions and collisions between cultures and nations, families and outsiders, and partners and misfits searching for love. Set in Russia and the United States, these are boldly innovative storiesโtales of fractured, misplaced characters moving beyond the borders of their isolation and reaching for the connections that will make them whole.
A family, shaken by an industrial accident, is divided, its members isolated in their home and only able to understand one another from their separate rooms. A young gay couple travels to Russia to meet the child they're desperately trying to adopt, but the experience reveals an emotional divide between the parents-to-be. A recent amputee removes herself from her body to keep her husband at bay. And the idyllic village life of a blind Russian boy is disrupted by an American dentist and the wonders of racy Western magazines. Separate Kingdoms is a rich and satisfying collection that traverses the distances between people and places in each marvelously rendered story.
More Information
| Author | Valerie Laken |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Harper Perennial |
| Release year | 2019 |
| Cover type | Softcover |
| EAN | 9780060840945 |