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Valerie Laken

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Description:From the Pushcart Prize-winning author of Dream House comes a riveting short story collection set in the United States and Russia, charting the divisions and collisions between cultures and nations, families and lovers.In the title story of Valerie Laken’s Separate Kingdoms, the members of a family shaken by a terrible accident divide themselves up room by room, only able to understand each other when they are separated. A gay couple’s journey to adopt a Russian baby begins to feel like a shopping trip, fraught with terrible choices that reveal the divide between them. The idyllic village life of a blind Russian boy and his mother is disrupted by a new American dentist and the wonders of racy Western magazines. A recent amputee keeps her husband at bay by removing herself from her body whenever he comes near.In one way or another, these are love stories, tales of the ways humans reach beyond their own borders, desperately trying to navigate the rough territory that stretches between one human kingdom and the next. Laken’s misplaced, misfit characters are damaged and scarred, and their bodies fail them; they are torn between the wonders of the world and the adventures of the mind. They travel and flee, struggling against their isolation to locate a place like home, ultimately reaching for the connection that will make them whole.http://www.harpercollinscatalogs.com/...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Separate Kingdoms: Stories (P.S.). To get started finding Separate Kingdoms: Stories (P.S.), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 224

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Release: 2011

ISBN: 0060840943

Description: From the Pushcart Prize-winning author of Dream House comes a riveting short story collection set in the United States and Russia, charting the divisions and collisions between cultures and nations, families and lovers.In the title story of Valerie Laken’s Separate Kingdoms, the members of a family shaken by a terrible accident divide themselves up room by room, only able to understand each other when they are separated. A gay couple’s journey to adopt a Russian baby begins to feel like a shopping trip, fraught with terrible choices that reveal the divide between them. The idyllic village life of a blind Russian boy and his mother is disrupted by a new American dentist and the wonders of racy Western magazines. A recent amputee keeps her husband at bay by removing herself from her body whenever he comes near.In one way or another, these are love stories, tales of the ways humans reach beyond their own borders, desperately trying to navigate the rough territory that stretches between one human kingdom and the next. Laken’s misplaced, misfit characters are damaged and scarred, and their bodies fail them; they are torn between the wonders of the world and the adventures of the mind. They travel and flee, struggling against their isolation to locate a place like home, ultimately reaching for the connection that will make them whole.http://www.harpercollinscatalogs.com/...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Separate Kingdoms: Stories (P.S.). To get started finding Separate Kingdoms: Stories (P.S.), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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