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Tourist Season : Stories by Shomer, Enid is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Tourist Season : Stories about?
<p>In <i>Tourist Season</i>, award-winning author Enid Shomer offers ten brilliant, richly detailed unforgettable stories of resilient women, aged seventeen to seventy, each at a pivotal point in her life. Their journeys cross distances of place and mind: A middle-aged Floridian who learns that she is the reincarnation of a Buddhist saint takes daring steps on her path to enlightenment; a long-buried secret forces one woman to leave the daughter she deeply loves; a Radcliffe student faces shocking family truths and taboos during the summer of 1966; an unexpected kinship forms between two women who land in a county jail after an excursion to Las Vegas. These travelers wander through shifting emotional landscapes of love, sex, and relationships, and often miss the destinations they’d wished to reach–of insight, connection, and understanding. Whether journeying to new geographical locales or exploring uncharted personal terrain, <i>Tourist Season</i> offers a provocative, engaging, and often humorous road map of the heart and soul.</p> <p>“[When reading Enid Shomer’s stories,] the thing one quickly senses is the will and the voice, someone saying, in effect, ‘Relax, be comfortable, I’
Who reads Tourist Season : Stories?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Shomer, Enid
- Publisher
- New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307492067
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.24 / 5 (103 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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