All Things Are Labor: Stories

By Katherine Arnoldi

Book Overview

The enigmatic stories in this haunting collection deal with individuals striving to live outside the dominant American culture - people who do not want to be incorporated, appropriated, or consumed. Their battles are waged on interior and external landscapes, pitting clarity against confusion, faith against fear, the marginalized against the powerful, the passive against the aggressive. In one story, a Mennonite mother leaves her alcoholic husband and moves with her three children into an abandoned house and back to a life of faith, though a new faith, one of her own making. In another story, a teenager living in the darkness of a failing rust-belt city holds before her the only light she sees, her child, to guide the way as she moves across the border and beyond. A young artist in New York City pursues a simple life, a passive life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558496033
• ISBN13: 9781558496033
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"