Improvement : a novel / Joan Silber.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781619029606
- ISBN: 161902960X
- Physical Description: 227 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, [2017]
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "A...novel about a young single mother living in Harlem, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them. Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet she sees him through a three-month stint at Riker's Island, their bond growing tighter. Kiki, now settled in the East Village after a youth that took her to Turkey and other far-off places--and loves--around the world, admires her niece's spirit but worries that motherhood to four-year-old Oliver might complicate a difficult situation. Little does she know that Boyd is pulling Reyna into a smuggling scheme, across state lines, violating his probation. When Reyna takes a step back, her small act of resistance sets into motion a tapestry of events that affect the lives of loved ones and strangers around them"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Subject: | Single mothers > Fiction. Aunts > Fiction. |
Available copies
- 13 of 14 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Mark Twain Library Association - Redding.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 14 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | FIC Sil (Text) | 33620131428373 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Electronic resources
Author Notes
Improvement : A Novel
JOAN SILBER is the author of the story collection Fools , which was long-listed for the National Book Award and nominated for the PEN/Faulker Award. Her first novel, Household Words , won the PEN/Hemingway Award. She has published five other books of fiction, including Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories , a finalist for the National Book Award and the Story Prize, and The Size of the World , a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Prize in Fiction and one of the Seattle Times' 10 Best Books of Fiction. She's been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and her work has appeared in the Paris Review , the New Yorker , Agni , Ploughshares , Boulevard , and Epoch , among other publications. The beginning of Improvement was published in Tin House , nominated for an O. Henry Prize, and included in The Best AmericanShort Stories 2015 .