| How Strange a Season: Fiction Contributor(s): Mayhew Bergman, Megan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1476713103 ISBN-13: 9781476713106 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $24.29 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2022 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Southern |
| Dewey: 813.6 |
| LCCN: 2021043815 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.9" W x 8.5" (0.85 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An evocative and engrossing collection of new stories and a novella about women experiencing life's challenges and beauty from the award-winning writer Megan Mayhew Bergman. A recently separated woman fills a huge terrarium with endangered flowers to establish a small world only she can control in an attempt to heal her broken heart. A competitive swimmer negotiates over which days she will fulfill her wifely duties, and which days she will keep for herself. A peach farmer wonders if her orchard will survive a drought. And generations of a family in South Carolina struggle with fidelity and their cruel past, some clinging to old ways and others painfully carving new paths. In these haunting stories, Megan Mayhew Bergman portrays women who wrestle with problematic inheritances: a modern glass house on a treacherous California cliff, a water-starved ranch, and an abandoned plantation on a river near Charleston. Bergman's provocative prose asks the questions: what are we leaving behind for our ancestors to hold, and what price will they pay for our mistakes? |
Contributor Bio(s): Mayhew Bergman, Megan: - Megan Mayhew Bergman is the author of Almost Famous Women, Birds of a Lesser Paradise, and Nightingale Lane. She is a regular columnist for The Guardian, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Best American Short Stories, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and Oxford American, among other publications. She was a fellow at the American Library in Paris and now directs Middlebury's Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference. She lives in Vermont. |