Becky Mandelbaum
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"2016. The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals is in trouble. Ariel discovers that her mother Mona's animal sanctuary in Western Kansas has not only been the target of anti-Semitic hate crimes, it is also for sale, due to hidden financial ruin. Ariel, living a new life in progressive Lawrence, and estranged from her mother for six years, returns to her childhood home - and finds her first love, a ranch hand named Gideon, still working at the Bright...
Author
Language
English
Description
The eleven stories in this Flannery O'Connor Award-winning collection explore Midwestern life "with heart and precision, and a fresh sense of humor" (Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted).
These beautifully crafted stories reveal the complicated underbelly of the country's most flown-over state and the quirky characters that call it home. In this darkly humorous collection, Kansas becomes a state of mind as Mandelbaum's characters struggle...