In this Book
- Night in Erg Chebbi and Other Stories
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Iowa Press
- Series: Iowa Short Fiction Award
summary
Night in Erg Chebbi and Other Stories spans the globe, taking us from Belfast to Brazil, Morocco to Manhattan. The teenaged daughter of an IRA assassin flees Northern Ireland only to end up in Baby Doc’s terrifying Haiti. An American woman who’s betrayed her brother only to lose him to a Taliban bullet comes face to face with her demons during a vacation in Morocco. A famed photojournalist must find a way to bring her life’s work to closure before she goes blind, a quest that changes her understanding of the very physics of light.
By turns innocent and canny, the characters of Night in Erg Chebbi and Other Stories must learn to improvise—quickly—when confronted with stark choices they never dreamed they’d have to make. Lyrical, immaculately constructed and deeply felt, these nine stories take us far beyond our comfort zones and deep into the wilds of the human heart.
By turns innocent and canny, the characters of Night in Erg Chebbi and Other Stories must learn to improvise—quickly—when confronted with stark choices they never dreamed they’d have to make. Lyrical, immaculately constructed and deeply felt, these nine stories take us far beyond our comfort zones and deep into the wilds of the human heart.
Table of Contents
Download Full Book
- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- Night in Erg Chebbi
- pp. 15-28
- Light Year
- pp. 29-41
- One Child Policy
- pp. 42-58
- The Release
- pp. 59-77
- Boy, Unleashed
- pp. 132-140
Additional Information
ISBN
9781609383848
Related ISBN(s)
9781609383831
MARC Record
OCLC
915134650
Pages
174
Launched on MUSE
2015-08-03
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2015