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"[The] stories read like chapters of a novel and focus on generations within a family. The stories interweave themes, events, characters and even objects, such as a blue fence or wax fruit. Mysteries are solved, or at least revisited. Characters have interconnecting complications." --Dallas Morning News "One of Texas's finest writers, Carolyn Osborn, is back with a collection of her award-winning stories. Osborn's stately lyricism, plain-spoken epiphanies, and hard-won truths are all on superb display. Fans of Alice Munro should have a look at this indispensable collection." --Sarah Bird, author, Above the East China Sea "[Carolyn Osborn] has earned a place as one of Texas's finest writers with prose that is precise and full of heart, and this book of Tennessee exemplifies that." --Austin American-Statesman "Carolyn Osborn's thoroughly admirable new collection, Where We Are Now, is all about those strangers we call family. Osborn's collection is wise, funny, and moving, the mature work of a skilled writer. The characters are vivid--Tennesseans, Texans, and New Mexicans, orphans and parents, aunts, and uncles, sisters and brothers. Some are rascals, others are tyrants, and all of them grow on you. Wherever you read Where We Are Now, you'll be transported to a front porch on a summer afternoon, where you're delighting in the company of an old friend who is telling you at last the secrets you've wanted to know." --Laura Furman, series editor, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and author, The Mother Who Stayed
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Where We Are Now is a collection of stories that Carolyn Osborn has developed over two decades about a single family, the Moores. Marianne, the main narrator of these stories about her mother's family, says, ""The truth is sometimes a poor, sad thing - wax fruit melted in an attic, a lone mule wandering on the front lawn, a mute player piano - a few insubstantial fragments. All we could do was grab hold and make something more of them."" In the beginning story, ""The Greats,"" her relatives are so distant Marianne can only give brief glimpses of these ""eccentric, willful, mysterious Moores."" ""The Grands,"" an O. Henry Prize story, first introduced readers to many of the characters who inhabit Where We Are Now. By knowing the Moores, we begin to know Marianne who tries to understand them. Curious as she is, she must continually accept the mystery of reality. Aware of the need for family mythology, she orders her world as best she can with what she is given by reacting, reflecting, inventing and enlarging on the ""fragments."" Other narrators reveal omissions Marianne can never know. Marianne's life and the lives of the Moores have a definitely southern flavor. They mirror fading nineteenth century morality, an acceptance of eccentricity, a habit of story-telling, a strong consciousness of place, and the influence as well as the particularity of family. These stories are also attempts to show the failures and triumphs of love, the necessity of forgiveness, and the usefulness of different sorts of families.
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- Año de publicación2015
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- ISBN 13 9781609403874
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