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Rituals to Observe

Stories about Holidays from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

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Pub Date Sep 01 2019 | Archive Date Sep 20 2019
General Fiction (Adult)

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These stories amount to something more than a celebration of the holidays dotting our calendars from month to month. Even though holidays can occasion a return to the familiar, these stories challenge traditional associations. Each story serves to complicate how we observe the human observation of holidays and offers a nuanced understanding of related themes such as family and motherhood, travel, grief and mourning processes, and memory. More generally, holidays are days of observance, and that aspect alone offers a lot to unpack.

These stories amount to something more than a celebration of the holidays dotting our calendars from month to month. Even though holidays can occasion a return to the familiar, these stories...

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ISBN 9780820356594
PRICE $24.95 (USD)
PAGES 236

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