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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828605303321

Autore

Horne Jennifer

Titolo

Tell the world you're a wildflower : stories / / Jennifer Horne ; cover image, Ann Feeney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : University Alabama Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8173-8777-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 p.)

Disciplina

813/.6

Soggetti

Women - Southern States

Southern States Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; I; Blue; Truth or Consequences; Sixteen Going On; Mexico; "Just Friends" with Jesus; II; Ted and Mary; Noli Me Tangere; Business or Pleasure; Other People's Dogs; Needs Work; Sandra; The Other Grandparents; III; String-up; Residue; Be Careful What You Wish For; Compound; No Legacy Is So Rich As Honesty; 1957; Arkansas Blacks; IV; UDC; Lost and Found; January; Why I Live at the Albert Pike Hotel; Trompe L'Oeil

Sommario/riassunto

Tell the World You're a Wildflower is a collection of loosely interwoven stories in the voices of southern women and girls of different ages and backgrounds. Beginning with the youngest characters and ending with the oldest, the stories encompass plastic surgery and white supremacists, family secrets and family trees, the United Daughters of the Confederacy and a young writer who describes her work in progress as "the bastard love-child of William Faulkner and Alice Walker."In Tell the World You're a Wildflower, each character must decide what to tell, whether to tell it, and to whom to tell i