A Lesson In Manners Stories edition by Misty Urban Literature Fiction eBooks
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Winner of the Serena McDonald Kennedy Award
The ten stories in this haunting and hilarious collection offer a how-to manual for dealing with love, lies, and loneliness. Sam Wesson, an up-and-coming country-western singer, plots to get pregnant without her boyfriend’s consent, while Dacey, already pregnant, confronts her cheating husband over her secret checking account. Andrea rescues a stray dog to avoid facing her complicated human relationships. Sarah, an exotic dancer, longs for employment at a religious theme park, and Amelia dreams of creating impossible bonsai. Whether facing life-threatening illness or life-threatening loss, these characters scheme in humble, funny, sympathetic, and outrageous ways to find an etiquette that will deliver them from disappointment and shield them from crushing grief.
Stories from this collection were first published in New Letters, Indiana Review, Roanoke Review, Quarterly West, Blackbird, Front Range Review, and Talking River, and have been recognized with prizes from The Atlantic Monthly, New Letters, Writers @ Work, Cornell University, and a Pushcart nomination.
A Lesson In Manners Stories edition by Misty Urban Literature Fiction eBooks
Every word carefully chosen. Each sentence thoughtfully crafted. Powerful protagonists with deep memories, secret longings, distinctive voices -- some who dare take their dreams and fly, some who must plot and be patient to shape their future, some who simply need to tell their story in search of catharsis. Each story is nothing like the other, and all have an urgent cadence that begs the reader to turn another page. Rich in symbolism and highly relatable, these stories will resonate most with female readers. Each setting was well researched, and Urban has a talent for using literary devices to add vivid detail to the reader's mind, as well as further the plot. I was forced to split my reading into two sessions but easily could have devoured the entire book in one sitting. My only complaint is I wanted more of each character, after their stories had ended. But such is the hallmark of good fiction: It makes you a bit sad to leave your new friends behind.Product details
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A Lesson In Manners Stories edition by Misty Urban Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This is an amazing book. Each story has so many layers, so much complexity that it's like eating an over rich dessert that you have to put down and digest for a bit before you continue.
When I first read the short story "A Lesson in Manners," in SISTERS AN ANTHOLOGY, I was terribly moved by the story and by the unusual way it was told. Re-reading it as the title story in this book, I found it even more touching and provocative. An omniscient, second-person narrator both predicts and relives, for the "you" in the story, the timeline of losing her beloved sister. It is a story told with exquisite detail and pain. Why such unfair loss? It is a question this masterful story cannot answer, but it asks it beautifully.
Then I started reading "The Memoirs of Sam Weston," the second story in the collection, and right away a Tennessee gal named Ellen Slocombe is playig her steel-string and singing "The Corner of Whiskey and Vine," the song she knows will make her famous. She calls herself Sam Weston, after her probable and longed-for father, and her primary aspiration is to conceive a daughter with a guy who won't stick around, which is fine with her; she thinks she only wants the baby. Sam Weston's voice is pure little-town country and kiss-my-ass sure of itself, entirely different than the voice of story number one.
Story after story is told here in a new, distinctive and -- yes, authentic -- voice, complete with its own rhythms and fully formed fears and desires. An ivory-billed woodpecker, thought to be extinct, means the world of hope and fury to a desperately unhappy young wife. A shy supermarket checker who pays adoring, though covert, attention to a customer is left with the vain hope she will see a message he left for her on an obscure Internet site. A woman in Minneapolis adopts an injured dog and is caught in a very funny, very healing reunion with her brother. In "Planet Joy," my favorite story in this collection, Caro has developed motion sickness after her sister's death. Only after Devi Swan, a leader at the Evanston Center for Expanding Consciousness, tells Caro that she has a spirit guide and asks, "She's here right now, isn't she?" does Caro make peace with her complicated grief and find the joy in letting go.
These stories are beautifully written. Characters become more fully formed with every memory, every fantasy, every false start, every small triumph. There is humor here, and pathos, and these stories will leave you with lots to think about.
This collection of short stories is well written. Her style of writing morphs into her stories. She gives voice to her characters. Her diverse band of characters come alive on the page.
Urban has crafted 10 beautifully written stories of remarkable breadth. Each character is fully realized and their tales feel so real that I wonder how one person could write so many characters so deeply without actually experiencing their lives. I love the line, "You are not yet fluent in tears. You will be."
SPOILER ALERT--
The only flaw for me as a reader is that I want to know what happened to each character, but the author made the artistic choice to leave the stories open-ended. As a reader, I need that closure, but I understand that need is not universal.
Every word carefully chosen. Each sentence thoughtfully crafted. Powerful protagonists with deep memories, secret longings, distinctive voices -- some who dare take their dreams and fly, some who must plot and be patient to shape their future, some who simply need to tell their story in search of catharsis. Each story is nothing like the other, and all have an urgent cadence that begs the reader to turn another page. Rich in symbolism and highly relatable, these stories will resonate most with female readers. Each setting was well researched, and Urban has a talent for using literary devices to add vivid detail to the reader's mind, as well as further the plot. I was forced to split my reading into two sessions but easily could have devoured the entire book in one sitting. My only complaint is I wanted more of each character, after their stories had ended. But such is the hallmark of good fiction It makes you a bit sad to leave your new friends behind.
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