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Read This and Tell Me What It Says: Stories

A. Manette Ansay

Winner:Great Lakes Book Awards -Fiction (1997)
Here are the lives of rural people struggling to make sense of the isolated and often intensely religious worlds in which they live. Marie, a young wife and mother, recalls the effects of a statutory rape trial on her small community. Stuart, a devout teenage boy, dares to rename himself "Start, " the only significant thing he has ever done without first consulting God. Widowed Eliza discovers her husband's ghost in the bathroom, flipping through pages of the Popular Mechanics magazines she had thrown out after his death.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • Publish Date: Jun 1st, 1998
  • Pages: 160
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.03in - 5.31in - 0.50in - 0.31lb
  • EAN: 9780380730773
  • Categories: • Short Stories (single author)• Small Town & Rural• Nature & the Environment

About the Author

Ansay, A. Manette: -

A. Manette Ansay is the author of eight books, including Vinegar Hill, Midnight Champagne (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Blue Water. She has received the Pushcart Prize, two Great Lakes Book Awards, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches in the MFA writing program at the University of Miami.

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