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Heartbroke : stories / Chelsea Bieker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Catapult, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 277 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781646221271
  • 1646221273
Other title:
  • Heart broke
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be miners -- Say where she is -- Cowboys and angels -- Fact of body -- Keep her down -- Lyra -- Women and children first -- Cadillac Flats -- Raisin man -- Heartbroke -- The bare of our chests.
Summary: A woman steals a baby from a shelter in an attempt to salvage her own lost motherhood. A phone-sex operator sees divine opportunity when a lavender-eyed cowboy walks into her life. A mother and a son selling dream catchers along a highway that leads to a toxic beach manifest two young documentary filmmakers into their realm. And two teenage girls play a dangerous online game with destiny. United by the stark and sprawling landscapes of California's Central Valley, Chelsea Bieker brims over with each character's attempt to salvage - or sabotage - grace where they can find it.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction BIEKER, CHELSEA Checked out 07/11/2024 33111010817761
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Finalist for the California Book Award

From the acclaimed author of Godshot and "a pitch-perfect ventriloquist of extraordinary talent and ferocity" (T Kira Madden) comes a defining book of Californian stories where everyone is seeking or sabotaging love

United by the stark and sprawling landscapes of California's Central Valley, the characters of Heartbroke boil with reckless desire. A woman steals a baby from a shelter in an attempt to recoup her own lost motherhood. A phone-sex operator sees divine opportunity when a lavender-eyed cowboy walks into her life. A mother and a son selling dream catchers along a highway that leads to a toxic beach manifest two young documentary filmmakers into their realm. And two teenage girls play a dangerous online game with destiny.

Heartbroke brims over with each character's attempt to salvage grace where they can find it. Told in bright, snapping prose that reveals a world of loss and love underneath, Chelsea Bieker brilliantly illuminates a golden yet gothic world of longing and abandonment under an unrelenting California sun.

A woman steals a baby from a shelter in an attempt to salvage her own lost motherhood. A phone-sex operator sees divine opportunity when a lavender-eyed cowboy walks into her life. A mother and a son selling dream catchers along a highway that leads to a toxic beach manifest two young documentary filmmakers into their realm. And two teenage girls play a dangerous online game with destiny. United by the stark and sprawling landscapes of California's Central Valley, Chelsea Bieker brims over with each character's attempt to salvage - or sabotage - grace where they can find it.

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be miners -- Say where she is -- Cowboys and angels -- Fact of body -- Keep her down -- Lyra -- Women and children first -- Cadillac Flats -- Raisin man -- Heartbroke -- The bare of our chests.

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