{
"item_title" : "Rituals to Observe",
"item_author" : [" Ethan Laughman", "Gail Galloway Adams", "David Crouse "],
"item_description" : "These stories amount to something more than a celebration of the holidays dotting our calendars from month to month. Even though holidays can occasion a return to the familiar, these stories challenge traditional associations. Each story serves to complicate how we observe the human observation of holidays and offers a nuanced understanding of related themes such as family and motherhood, travel, grief and mourning processes, and memory. More generally, holidays are days of observance, and that aspect alone offers a lot to unpack.",
"item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/82/035/659/082035659X_b.jpg",
"price_data" : {
"retail_price" : "26.95", "online_price" : "26.95", "our_price" : "26.95", "club_price" : "26.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : ""
}
}
Rituals to Observe : Stories about Holidays from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
Overview
These stories amount to something more than a celebration of the holidays dotting our calendars from month to month. Even though holidays can occasion a return to the familiar, these stories challenge traditional associations. Each story serves to complicate how we observe the human observation of holidays and offers a nuanced understanding of related themes such as family and motherhood, travel, grief and mourning processes, and memory. More generally, holidays are days of observance, and that aspect alone offers a lot to unpack.
Customers Also Bought
Details
- ISBN-13: 9780820356594
- ISBN-10: 082035659X
- Publisher: University of Georgia Press
- Publish Date: September 2019
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.61 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.57 pounds
- Page Count: 244
Related Categories
