Call Up the Waters: Stories Caron Amber
A magnetic debut collection of stories about the daily lives of girls and women in rural America. In Lost Person Behavior, the natural world is an escape hatch, a refuge, a site of work, and an…
Specifikacia Call Up the Waters: Stories Caron Amber
A magnetic debut collection of stories about the daily lives of girls and women in rural America. In Lost Person Behavior, the natural world is an escape hatch, a refuge, a site of work, and an occasional antagonist. In "The Handler," a woman leaves her boyfriend for the New Hampshire woods and fifty-seven sled dogs. In "Call Up the Waters," a devastating drought leads a mother of two deep into the Colorado Rockies in search of water. A distress call from a boat in Massachusetts Bay compels a mother to plumb her daughter's secrets in "Sea Women." And in "Bending the Map," a woman turns the tables on her obsessive, would-be lover after a powerful storm ravages her canyon home. The characters in these nine stories--search-and-rescue workers, dog trainers, naturalists, archaeologists, and dowsers--are as intent on mapping the self as they are mapping the world around them. But in the words