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Origin Stories: Stories by Corinna Vallianatos is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The stories in Origin Stories take as their subject the sources of love, marriage, motherhood, friendship, artistic ambition, restiveness, and shame. Their characters perceive more than they can explain, want more than they can have, and contend with the bounty and frugality of their relationships. In "This Isn't the Actual Sea," a woman considers that her friend's failure and sudden success have given her the material she needs to write something of her own, if she's willing to risk the friendship to do so. "The Artist's Wife" describes, in a painting stowed in a bowling alley broom closet, the chasm between seeing and being seen. "Dogwood" is a piece of lyric reportage on beauty, family, and survival whose sections range from the narrator's childhood to her son's new adulthood. And "Origin Story" acts as an accounting of the many different states where a woman and her husband have lived, and what it is they've been searching for. In this keen, meditative collection...

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Author

Corinna Vallianatos

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9781644453216

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities