The Missing Woman and Other Stories

By Carole Burns

Winner of: "Ploughshares," 2015 John C. Zacharis Award Stories in "The Missing Woman "circle around women who are either literally missing a mother in rehab, a daughter never born or who are missing some metaphorical piece of themselves.A father tries to convince his uncompromising, anorexic daughter to want to live, a single woman lures men to her bed only to abandon them, and a marriage is shaken by a search party for a woman who s disappeared. Burns asks questions about balance safety with adventure, dreams with practicality, grief with joy and challenges the reader to take a journey, make choices..."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910409669
• ISBN13: 9781910409664
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Parthian
• Length: 160 Pages