Brides in the sky : stories and a novella /
Each of the crystalline worlds Cary Holladay brings us in the short stories and novella that make up Brides in the Sky has sisterhood, in all its urgency and peril, at its heart. In the title story, two women in 1850s Virginia marry brothers who promptly uproot them to follow the Oregon Trail west,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Athens :
Swallow Press, an imprint of Ohio University Press,
[2019]
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| Summary: | Each of the crystalline worlds Cary Holladay brings us in the short stories and novella that make up Brides in the Sky has sisterhood, in all its urgency and peril, at its heart. In the title story, two women in 1850s Virginia marry brothers who promptly uproot them to follow the Oregon Trail west, until an unexpected shift of allegiance separates the sisters forever. Elsewhere in the book, a young boy's kidnapping ignites tensions in a sorority house, frontier figure Cynthia Ann Parker struggles upon her return to her birth community from the Comanche people with whom she's lived a full life and in a metafictional twist, a gothic tale resonates in the present. In the novella, "A Thousand Stings," three sisters come of age in the 1960s over a long summer of small-town scandal and universal stakes. These are just some of the lives, shaped by migrations, yearning and the long shadows of myth, that Holladay creates. She crafts them with subtle humor, a stunning sense of place and an unerring eye for character. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 173 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780804012034 0804012032 9780804012041 0804012040 |