Short stories depicting individuals trying to live with and without their dysfunctional families, clinging to whatever stability they can find. "Panning's style is experimental--changing points of view within a single story . . . The voices of Panning's characters are invariably riveting."--"Newsday"
Short stories depicting individuals trying to live with and without their dysfunctional families, clinging to whatever stability they can find. "Panni...
In settings as different as Honolulu, Hawaii, small-town Minnesota, and Taxco, Mexico, these nine stories and a novella show blue-collar characters struggling to achieve the American Dream--and sometimes alienating friends and family as they try to upgrade their working-class pedigree. Anne Panning's people, despite their mixed record of success, make us root for them on their sometimes heartbreaking journeys of entrepreneurship, love, and loss.
In "Tidal Wave Wedding" a tsunami in Honolulu yields surprising results for a couple on their honeymoon. In "All-U-Can-Eat," a woman tries to...
In settings as different as Honolulu, Hawaii, small-town Minnesota, and Taxco, Mexico, these nine stories and a novella show blue-collar characters...
Anne Panning s fiction has been described as warm and original by "Publishers Weekly," intelligent and humorous by the "Boston Globe," graceful and wry by "Booklist," and infectious and enchanting by the "New York Times." In fact, Panning s last collection of short stories, "Super America," was a "New York Times Book Review "Editor s Choice. Enter this exciting new novel, the best work yet from a writer whose astute observations of American life are as honest as they are engaging."Butter" is a coming of age tale set against the backdrop of small-town Minnesota during the 1970s and told...
Anne Panning s fiction has been described as warm and original by "Publishers Weekly," intelligent and humorous by the "Boston Globe," graceful and...
