TY - BOOK AU - Vallianatos,Corinna TI - My escapee: stories T2 - Winner of the 2011 Grace Paley Prize in short fiction SN - 1558499865 (cloth : alk. paper) PY - 2012/// CY - Amherst PB - University of Massachusetts Press KW - Women KW - Fiction KW - Psychology KW - Short stories KW - gsafd N1 - My Escapee --; Posthumous fragments of Veronica Penn --; Examination --; Sink home --; Salvo --; Celebrants --; The Help --; Privations --; Shelter --; A civilizing effect N2 - Delicate and assured, the stories in My escapee illuminate unseen forces in women's lives: the shameful thought, the stifled hope, the subterranean stresses of marriage, friendship, and family. Grappling with lost memories, escaped time, the longing to be loved, and the instinct for autonomy, the stories peer inside their characters' minds to their benign delusions, their triumphs and defeats -- Provided by the publisher ER -