02420nam 22004333 450 991015898460332120230808200011.0(CKB)3710000000903198(MiAaPQ)EBC4554382(Au-PeEL)EBL4554382(CaPaEBR)ebr11527447(OCoLC)1015873298(EXLCZ)99371000000090319820210901d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierClothed, Female FigureLa Vergne :Dzanc Books,2016.©2016.1 online resource (150 pages)1-941088-09-0 1-941088-71-6 Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Millennium -- Chapter 2 Clothed, Female Figure -- Chapter 3 The Other Woman -- Chapter 4 Announcements -- Chapter 5 Ark -- Chapter 6 Madrona -- Chapter 7 Charm Circle -- Chapter 8 Green -- Chapter 9 Still Life -- Chapter 10 Quetzal -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author.Clothed, Female Figure opens a singular investigation on women: mothers, daughters, gardeners, housecleaners, employers, friends, aunts, nannies. These eleven stories illuminate inner lives in the throes of coming-of-age, self-preservation, passing, motherhood, memory, and redemption. There are dispatches from haloed single-girl apartments in New York; from the house behind the linden tree where the first baby was born; from the horsetail scrubland behind the beach club; an overgrown back garden that becomes the shrouded stage for a reunion. A Russian nanny guards a secret. A new wife subverts housekeeping to keep up with her feminist mother-in-law. An alcoholic daughter is haunted by her mother's disappearance. Through the collection's independent but thematically interlinked narratives, Allio investigates women with sharp and soft edges, and their quest to both embrace and outstrip their domestic dimensions.Clothed, Female FigureShort stories, American - 21st centuryShort stories, American - 21st century.813.6Allio Kirstin1375202MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910158984603321Clothed, Female Figure3409384UNINA