Boundless Deep, and Other Stories
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
Format: Book
Description: 148 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
"Boundless Deep and Other Stories is a portrait of a family that holds together despite everything. By turns introspective, surreal, and bitingly funny, this collection of linked short stories spans seven decades across Japan and the United States and shows the tenacity of relationships fractured by language and distance. At the funeral of her old boss, a grandmother confronts the legacy of the draft letters she delivered as a girl during World War II. Facing the loss of his job, a father becomes the caricature strangers have always believed him to be. A graduate student living far from home is worn down by the reality of what it takes to save even a small piece of the world. Along the way, we meet communist revolutionary Shigenobu Fusako hiding out in a Tokyo hotel, submariner and war criminal Nishina Sekio in his tortured dreams, and Edwin, your half-dolphin friend, wreaking havoc in a public pool. Written in the compressed style of Amy Hempel and Lucia Berlin, these stories examine characters whose struggles submerge them, weighing them down from every angle, until they can finally float free. "-- Provided by publisher.
Series: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner book prize in fiction
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1 -- Hideto, in Motion and at Rest -- Hideto Worn Down in Gainesville, 2001 -- My Mother Takes Me to a Public Bath -- Yukari Kneeling in My Mother's Garden, 1994 -- Chie and George, 2015 -- Half-Blind -- My Father Will Not Admit He Has Become a Clown -- 2 -- The Mystery of Animal Grief -- Nishina Sekio in a Tunnel Alone -- Preparations, 2015 -- Home Burial -- Housefire -- Suicide Drills, 1945 -- The Grandma Invasion -- We Are a Woman Bombed / A Picture of Grace -- Nishina Sekio in a Broken Machine -- Harvest Mouse -- Hack Science -- A Shark Is an Animal That Blushes When You Touch Its Face -- Synonyms for Climate Change -- Boundless Deep -- My Grandmother Stops Some Nights on Her Way to the Outhouse to Watch a Ghost Climb Down to the Sea -- Nishina Sekio Imprisoned in Dreams -- 3 -- My Father and Shigenobu Fusako in the Hallway of the Hotel New Otani, 1980 -- Or Go Further Back -- Elastico -- What My Mother Doesn't Say -- The Failings of Our Fathers -- Incredible Lifelike Whale Comes Up for Air, Again and Again -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Sources.
ISBN:
9781496237453
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Del Raye | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references.