Janice Obuchowski

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The Woods: StoriesPaperback, 10 November 2022

The Woods: Stories
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Part of Series
Iowa Short Fiction Award
Print Length
212 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Date Published
10 Nov 2022
ISBN-10
1609388755
ISBN-13
9781609388751

Description

The Woods explores the lives of people in a small Vermont college town and its surrounding areas--a place at the edge of the bucolic, where the land begins to shift into something untamed. In the tradition of Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, these stories follow people who carry private griefs but search for contentment. As they try to make sense of their worlds, grappling with problems--worried about their careers, their marriages, their children, their ambitions--they also sift through the happiness they have, and often find deep solace in the landscape.

What do we find in the woods? An uplifting of spirit or a quieting of sorrow. A sense of being haunted by the past. Sometimes rougher, more violent things: abandoned quarries and feral cats, black bears, brothers caught up in an escalating war, a ghost who wishes to pass on her despair, monsters who boom with hollow ecstatic laughter. But also songbirds: the hermit thrush and the winter wren. Rushing rivers glossy with froth. A nineteenth-century inn that's somehow gotten by all these years. And far within, a vegetal twilight and constant dusk that feels outside of time. This remarkable debut illuminates the ways we all carry within ourselves aspects stark, beautiful, wild, and unknowable.

Product Details

Author:
Janice Obuchowski
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
10 November 2022
Dimensions:
20.83 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm
ISBN-10:
1609388755
ISBN-13:
9781609388751
Language:
English
Pages:
212
Weight:
294.83 gm

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