{"product_id":"origin-stories-stories-paperback","title":"Origin Stories: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCorinna Vallianatos\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories in \u003ci\u003eOrigin Stories\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this keen, meditative collection set in Southern California and Virginia, Corinna Vallianatos dramatizes the bonds of mother and child, the self-destruction of young womanhood, the thrill and bewilderment of friendship, and the power of place. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrigin Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with humor, longing, beauty, and belief.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCorinna Vallianatos\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Beforeland\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy Escapee\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories 2023, McSweeney's, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. She lives in California and Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 04, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263065800953,"sku":"9781644453216","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ge4gAaG64I9781644453216.webp?v=1768813959","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/origin-stories-stories-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}