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02344aam a2200325Ii 4500 001 AD20C0D24A4011EA8859373197128E48 003 SILO 005 20200208010019 008 190809t20192019meu ed 000 1 eng d 010 $a 2019946704 020 $a 9781643583877 020 $a 1643583875 035 $a (OCoLC)1111643256 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d IV7 $d OJ4 $d OCLCO $d LE# $d SILO 100 1 $a Walbert, Kate, $d 1961- $e author. 240 10 $a Short stories. $k Selections. 245 10 $a She was like that : $b new and selected stories / $c Kate Walbert. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Thorndike, Maine : $b Center Point Large Print, $c 2019. 300 $a 287 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm 505 00 $t Radical feminists. $t The blue hour -- $t Playdate -- $t Esperanza -- $t To do -- $t Paris, 1994 -- $t A mother is someone who tells jokes -- $t Conversation -- $t She was like that -- $t Slow the heart -- $t Do something -- $t Radical feminists. 520 $a "In these twelve deft, acutely funny and often heartbreaking stories, Kate Walbert delves into the hearts and minds of women. Her characters are searchers, uneasy in one way or another. They yearn for connection. They question the definitions assigned to them as wives, mothers, and daughters; they seek their own way within isolated, and often isolating, circumstances, reveling in small, everyday epiphanies and moments of clarity. In the riveting opening story 'M&M World', a woman is plunged into panic when she briefly loses one of her daughters at the vast and over-stimulating Times Square store. In 'Slow the Heart'. a single mother tries to ease tension at the dinner table with Roses and Thorns, the game she knows the Obamas played in the White House. In 'Radical Feminists', a woman skating with her two children encounters the man who derailed her career years earlier. And in the poignant, 'A Mother Is Someone Who Tells Jokes', a mother reflects on the nursery school project that preceded her son's autism diagnosis"--Provided by publisher. 941 $a 5 945 $a lpt 952 $l TBPD706 $d 20240621012017.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012013908.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909055808.0 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20200806014043.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20200208010421.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AD20C0D24A4011EA8859373197128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search