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States of Motion : stories by by Thomas, Laura Hulthen is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is States of Motion : stories by about?
Newton's Laws of Motion describe the relationship between a body and its response to the forces acting upon it. For the men and women in States of Motion , imbalance is a way of life. Set in Michigan small towns both real and fictional, the stories in Laura Hulthen Thomas's collection take place against a backdrop of economic turmoil and the domestic cost of the war on terror. As familiar places, privilege, and faith disappear, what remains leaves these broken characters wondering what hope is left for them. These stories follow blue collars and white, cops and immigrants, and mothers and sons as they defend a world that is quickly vanishing. The eight stories in States of Motion follow tough, quixotic characters struggling to reinvent themselves even as they cling to what they've lost. A grieving father embraces his town's suspicions of him as the sole suspect in his daughter's disappearance. A driving instructor struggles to care for his abusive mother between training lessons with two flirtatious teens. A behavioral researcher studying the fear response must face her own fears when her childhood attacker returns to ask for her forgiveness. Conditioned by their traumatic pasts
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Thomas, Laura Hulthen
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780814343159
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Short Stories
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (4 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14