The Graywolf Annual Two : short stories by women

These 13 short stories by well-known contemporary writers evoke a wide range of women's experiences and feelings. Writers such as Alice Munro, Ann Beattie, Elizabeth Tallent, and Mavis Gallant survey the rich complexity and frequent contradictions of contemporary life. They focus on weddings, funerals, childbearing, visits by relatives, friendships, and memories. In Susan Minot's story "The Navigator," a young girl tells of her family's struggle against her father's alcoholism. Louise Erdrich's "The Beet Queen" portrays a single parent's sudden abandonment of her children for a stunt flyer. Bobbie Ann Mason's "Blue Country" presents the story of a woman who, while attending the wedding of a friend, receives news of her grandmother's long-expected death. ISBN 0-915308-78-9 (pbk.): $7.50