{"product_id":"9781932511567","title":"Water: Nine Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e “Her stories have a fablelike quality, a dreaminess that lulls even as Miller explores the most contemporary issues.  Her characters seem to live on after the last word—I found myself thinking of them days after I’d finished the book, turning over what might have happened in later years....These psychologically acute stories are truly satisfying—imaginative, open-ended, haunting.”—\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The latest collection from Miller skillfully explores the tension in Midwestern race and class relations....Miller's tales impart a real breadth of experience.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Alyce Miller has the eye and the skills for getting the short story right. . . . She writes vividly about people in various degrees of emotional extremis, and she avoids the temptation to invent resolutions for the dilemmas they’re in. She deftly captures individual psychologies.”—Norman Rush, from the introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this startling new collection by prize-winning author Alyce Miller, changing images of water as a force both destructive and healing are woven throughout. Whether giving voice to the nameless wife from a tale by Chekhov or illustrating the fears driving apart black and white communities in small-town Ohio, Miller makes vivid the heart of human interaction. These stories, told from different perspectives of age, race, and gender, acknowledge a common rhythm in each of us—unsettled desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlyce Miller\u003c\/b\u003e has authored a collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Longing\u003c\/i\u003e (W.W. Norton \u0026amp; Company), winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and a novel, \u003ci\u003eStopping for Green Lights\u003c\/i\u003e (Anchor Doubleday), as well as more than 120 stories, poems, and essays that have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies. Her other awards include the Lawrence Foundation Prize from \u003ci\u003eMichigan Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e Award for Literary Excellence in Fiction, and distinguished citations in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe O. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Pushcart Prize\u003c\/i\u003e. She leads a double life as an attorney specializing in animal law and a professor in the graduate writing program at Indiana University Bloomington.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047880048880,"sku":"9781932511567","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781932511567_p0.jpg?v=1763641364","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781932511567","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}