Details

Subject(s)

• American literature—Southwestern States [Browse]
• Women—Southwestern States—Literary collections [Browse]
• American literature—Women authors [Browse]
• Southwestern States—Literary collections [Browse]

Related name

• Wilder, Kathryn, 1954- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Literature [Browse]

Summary note

Contains thirty-three contemporary short fiction stories about people living in the Southwest, written by women authors who are either from, or have spent a significant amount of time in the region.

Contents

• Just past Shiprock / Luci Tapahonso
• Cuatas / Rita Maria Magdaleno
• My friend Lucy who smells like corn / Sandra Cisneros
• The man who loved the rain / Marilyn Taylor
• A mean eye / Barbara Kingsolver
• Angels / Ana Consuelo Matiella
• Leaving the valley / Mary Hokanson
• The mark of the serpent / Linda Theresa Raczek
• Neutral zone / Ann Cummins
• That horse / Linda Hogan
• Acts of God and mortal men / Lisa Lenard
• Taking baby home / Lisa Shook Begaye
• Monsoons / Laraine Herring
• Like blood / Kathryn Wilder
• The Plain of Nazca / Cathryn Alpert
• Out there, in the hills / Della Frank
• Tight places / Ruth I. Kern
• Strays / Lucia Berlin
• El ojito del muerto / Melissa Pritchard
• What I never told you / Rebecca Lawton
• Rawhide / Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis
• A blizzard under blue sky / Pam Houston
• Holy dirt / Lisa Chewning
• When redrocks talk / Liza Resmehn
• Perfect kiva / Terry Rempest Williams
• Turquoise canyon sunset / Patt Carr
• Officer Magdalena, White Shell Woman, and me / Mary Sojourner
• Olivia / Rita Garitano
• Clock of changing color / Ellen Winter
• With fire / Debra Hughes
• Not just red / Jo Ann Freed
• Coyote woman / Sharman Apt Russell
• Effie's garden / Teresa Jordan.

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ISBN

• 0873585852
• 9780873585859

LCCN

94028280

OCLC

30813119

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