Description
| Product ID: | 9781771962896 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CA |
| Title: | Nosy White Woman |
| Authors: | Author: Martha Wilson |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories, Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A debut collection from a powerful new literary voice chronicling the intersection of politics and daily lives. A daughter explains to her mother why calling the police isn’t always a sound idea. A dad tries to understand how his influence over his children persists in their adulthood. A caretaking group of sisters must rely on each other, but one has a fierce drinking problem. Throughout Nosy White Woman, ordinary people, caught in the passing moments of their daily lives, confront the reality that the quiet societies they thought they knew aren’t really so simple after all, the morals not always obvious. In these sixteen stories, Martha Wilson turns a clear-eyed yet compassionate gaze on everyday experience, from rattled family discussions, to self-examination of body and voice, to increasingly present anxieties about the end of the world, stripping each one down with precision and sardonic wit to reveal surprising truths: that individual lives always intersect with the political, and that our small gestures and personal habits reverberate in the larger world of which we can’t help being citizens. |
| Imprint Name: | Biblioasis |
| Publisher Name: | Biblioasis |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-10-10 |
