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"Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary" is an intimate, exquisite, and true account of what it is to help a parent die. After her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, former home care worker and award-winning writer Rebecca Brown cared for her mother during the last six months of her life. This spare, unsentimental book comes out of that experience. In short chapters headed by definitions of medical terms, she confronts anemia, chemotherapy, metastasis, cremation. Brown s is a poignant and unflinching story of how one family coped with loss and learned about the longevity of...

The girls on the prowl in The Terrible Girls are indeed terrible relentless in love, ruthless in betrayal. These thematically linked stories depict a contemporary Gothic world in which body parts are traded for love, wounds never heal, and self-sacrifice is often the only way out."

The End of Youth is a collection of 13 linked stories, essays and rants, about carrying on after youth's hope is gone. In -Afraid of the Dark, - a child learns that there is good reason to be afraid. The adolescent narrator of -Description of a Struggle- finds that love can be brutal. -The Smokers- -examines an adult's realization that longevity means seeing loved ones die. Written with the same spare and vivid beauty as her earlier award-winning works, The End of Youth is certain to win even wider acclaim.

Rebecca Brown is the author of The Terrible Girls,...

The nameless narrator of The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary lives in her studio apartment with a pack of Doberman pinchers. The dogs, led by the cruel, charismatic bitch named Miss Dog, alternate between being brutal attack animals and loyal companions, being real and otherworldly. Some chapters draw upon the ecstatic and horrifying visions of Christian mystics; others take place in the landscapes of familiar fairytales; others in the banal settings of the late-night pick-up bars or suburban picnics. The narrator uneasily inhabits these worlds until the dogs force her to take irrevocable...

I love the layout, perspective, and challenge in Beginning to Fully Rely on God. Rebecca Brown's work is God's grace ready to be revealed to those who desire an intentional relationship with God. Whether in the morning, midday, or just before bed, you will find God's truth in your life. Rebecca lets you into her heart as you read her devotions. And then she says, "Now it's your turn Tell God what you think And then listen to what God wants you to know." As you turn your attention to answering the questions she has provided after each devotion, you will find in yourself, God's providing....

"One of the freshest, most memorable story collections of my lifetime. And 'A Good Man, ' one of the most important. Rarer than the newness, the wit, the vivid readability, is the deep caring understanding, the wholeness, the truth which this astonishing, haunting writer creates her people. 'A Good Man' will be a revelation, an epiphany to many a reader."--Tillie Olsen

"In Annie Oakley's Girl, people are so much larger, their motives, dreams and mysteries so much more complex than you ever imagined. Love is so much more dangerous, grief so much more powerful, hope so...

Gandhi's use of the spinning wheel was one of the most significant unifying elements of the nationalist movement in India. Spinning was seen as an economic and political activity that could bring together the diverse population of South Asia, and allow the formerly elite nationalist movement to connect to the broader Indian population.

This book looks at the politics of spinning both as a visual symbol and as a symbolic practice. It traces the genealogy of spinning from its early colonial manifestations in Company painting to its appropriation by the anti-colonial movement. This...