Separate Kingdoms: Stories

Synopsis

From Valerie Laken, the Pushcart Prize–winning author of Dream House, comes a powerful collection of short stories charting the divisions and collisions between cultures and nations, families and outsiders, and partners and misfits searching for love. Set in Russia and the United States, these are boldly innovative stories—tales of fractured, misplaced characters moving beyond the borders of their isolation and reaching for the connections that will make them whole.A family, shaken by an industrial accident, is divided, its members isolated in their home and only able to understand one another from their separate rooms. A young gay couple travels to Russia to meet the child they're desperately trying to adopt, but the experience reveals an emotional divide between the parents-to-be. A recent amputee removes herself from her body to keep her husband at bay. And the idyllic village life of a blind Russian boy is disrupted by an American dentist and the wonders of racy Western magazines. Separate Kingdoms is a rich and satisfying collection that traverses the distances between people and places in each marvelously rendered story.

Copyright:

2011

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

224 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780062041609

Related ISBNs:

9780060840945

Publisher:

HarperCollins

Date of Addition:

01/26/24

Copyrighted By:

Valerie Laken.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Romance, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Humor

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.