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What is Bad Kansas: Stories (Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction Series Book 89) about?

The eleven stories in this Flannery O’Connor Award-winning collection explore Midwestern life “with heart and precision, and a fresh sense of humor” (Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted).   These beautifully crafted stories reveal the complicated underbelly of the country’s most flown-over state and the quirky characters that call it home. In this darkly humorous collection, Kansas becomes a state of mind as Mandelbaum’s characters struggle to define their relationship to home and what it means to stay or leave, to hold on or let go.   When a desperately lonely woman finds herself on a bad date with a rugged man, she must decide whether to sacrifice the life of a bear in order to keep the man’s affection. After having a nightmare about a mallard, a young man wakes to discover he’s choking the woman he loves. When his mother starts dating a slimy pizza parlor owner, a young boy must carefully consider his loyalties. The appealing and peculiar characters in Bad Kansas are determined to get what they want, be it love or sex or power, in a world determined to overlook them.

Author

Becky Mandelbaum, Lee Abbott

Publisher

Athens: The University of Georgia Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820351285

Subjects

Short Stories, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.36 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14