Twelve Women in a Country Called America, by Kelly Cherry

Twelve Women in a Country Called America, by Kelly Cherry

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Kelly Cherry's tenth work of fiction delivers twelve compelling stories about women of the American South. These are women struggling to find their way through the everyday workings of life while also navigating the maze of self. From a young woman's nightmare piano lesson to an elderly woman's luminous last breath, Twelve Women in a Country Called America takes readers on a journey sometimes dark, sometimes funny, and always enlightening.

Twelve Women in a Country Called America, by Kelly Cherry

• Amazon Sales Rank: #999002 in Books
• Published on: 2015-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .53" w x 5.98" l, .76 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 232 pages

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Outstanding stories! Very highly recommended By Timothy J. Bazzett I actually read an advance copy of this book more than two months ago and wrote my review then. I liked it so much that since that time I have read three more of Kelly Cherry's books, three interconnected short story collections that I call the Nina Bryant trilogy. They are: My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers: A Novel in Stories, The Society of Friends: Stories, and A Kind of Dream: Stories. Like this book, they are all outstanding examples of the art of fiction in general, and the short story in particular. Cherry is an absolute master of the genre. Okay, here's my review of her latest -TWELVE WOMEN IN A COUNTRY CALLED AMERICA: STORIES, by Kelly Cherry.Where to begin? Well, I can't remember when I've LOVED a book of short stories quite this much. As any writer knows all too well, short stories are often a very hard sell in the book biz. But these stories, well, they are - ALL of them - just so damn PERfect! They are like tiny twenty-page novels, stories that seem to give you a look at a particular woman's whole life, with all its tears and laughter, sorrows and joys, triumphs and failures. There is simply not a clinker in the whole bunch.That said, I still don't know where to begin. But here goes. The twelve women featured here are all from the South - ten states: Alabama (twice), Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia (twice). They are ordinary women but each is unique. They are: Plummy, Ramona, France, Jeanne, Georgiana, Carolina, Sheba ('Sassy'), Jessie, Henrietta, Lorna Jo, Calista, and June. They range in age from ten (Jessie - "The Piano Lesson") to nearly ninety (Sassy - "A Life Long and Short"). But these ages remain relative, as you are often granted glimpses of various times in their lives, from childhood to old age. And it is this variety - in personality, age and circumstances - that makes this collection of stories - of lives - so rich and satisfying.I loved, for example, Sassy, who started out dirt-poor in the depths of the Depression, sleeping three to a mattress with her five younger siblings in Memphis, her hard-working mother always exhausted. But she "grew up to become Miss Sheba Moore, Bachelor of Arts and first-grade teacher," but she still remembers a Christmas when her only gift was a shiny red apple, and "sleeping in her mother's arms that Christmas night. She has never forgotten that even sadness can be a gift if it is shared."That detail of the apple brought to mind the ever-present orange in the toe of my own Christmas stocking, because my parents (also children of the Great Depression) remembered when an orange - or an apple - was a luxury. And now, nearing ninety, Sassy still misses her mother, remembering how she was always too tired to play with her children."If there is a heaven - which Sassy seriously doubts - the first thing she is going to do is look up her mother and take hold of her hand and ask her to dance. Her mother won't have to say she doesn't have time, she has to sweep and iron, mend and clean, she has to work. She'll let her smile grow wide, her dimple flashing, and the two of them will dance all over the pissy place."I also loved Texan Lorna Jo ("Serious Love"), who knew "how to throw her head back, square her shoulders, and walk like a woman. A fine art, this performance of gender, and presentation was critical ..." A successful professional woman who found love late in life, she "would remember what it was like to have been loved by a man who took love seriously."And there was Calista ("The Starveling"), a New Orleans ear ring artisan, ignored and emotionally abused by her vain wannabe-poet lover. Finally breaking free, she decides to try writing herself - about what she knows: "fear, grief, anger, loneliness, and fending off despair with work ... [and] self-reliance, adaptability, clarity of purpose, joking and friendship."In fact, these are all precisely the things that Kelly Cherry writes about in this marvelous jewel box of a book. Writing about what she knows. And every story here is a sparkling gem polished to perfection, and laced throughout with a sneakily sly, self-effacing sense of humor that will leave you chuckling, or even laughing aloud. I'll say it again: I LOVED these stories!Who IS this woman anyway? And why have I never heard of her? Especially considering she is a former poet laureate of Virginia and has written more than two dozen books of fiction, poetry, essays and even a couple translations of Greek plays. I mean this is obviously a wonderfully accomplished and skilled writer at the top of her game. And now that she's finally on my radar, I will definitely be reading more of Kelly Cherry's work.One more time: LOVED these stories; LOVED this book. Handing it off to my wife now. Very highly recommended.- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER

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