Details

Subject(s)

• Short stories [Browse]
• American fiction [Browse]

Series

• Iowa short fiction award. [More in this series]
• The Iowa short fiction award

Summary note

In the thirteen stories of My Body to You, thirteen women or girls pilot their own bodies through a shifting universe of lovers old and young, parents devoted and destructive, sisters of different sexes, children and adults living in the mysterious world of autism. All these characters share keen powers of observations and a heightened sensuality. In a wild variety of settings, they struggle to control-or dare to abandon themselves to-their intensely private passions.A woman in love with a gay man she calls Sister Kin attempts to escape the bonds of her own body. An eightee

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Language note

English

Contents

Contents; My Body toYou; News; Round Objects; Alice Egner; Virgins; What to Do in an Emergency; Gone; Losing Weight; Tell Me about It; First Most Beautiful Woman in the World; Not Herself; White Eggplant; Number 8

ISBN

1-58729-214-9

OCLC

44965622

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