Tourist Season: Stories

by Enid Shomer and TurtleMe

In Tourist Season , 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.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345494423
• ISBN13: 9780345494429
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

I adored this book

I absolutely loved these stories. We read Tourist Season for our book club (all women), and it was the basis of one of the best conversations we've had in months! Shomer does an amazing job of capturing the women of these stories at unique moments in their lives -- moments that many of us could relate to in some way. These stories are quirky, sometimes funny, and always incredibly human. I can't recommend this collection enough.

Travelers Unlimited

These tourists take the reader, by plane, by boat, by grayhound bus and most of all by surprise to amazing unexplored territory. The women and men in the stories shaked, rattled and rolled me into their worlds: worlds which are ordinary and outside and beyond that too. Shomers words, her vibrant images, the emotional depth and sparkling jewel of humor,and pathos ah ha the reader with unexpected possibilities. The journeys of each tourist did come to an end, but fortunately, as a reader, I will be a frequent flyer back to their worlds, reading each story again.

A terrific collection of short stories with strong female protagonists

Shomer proves that you don't have to tote a pistol or have supernatural powers to be a strong female protagonist.

Simple, quirky, fascinating portraits - sophisticated "Chic Lit" indeed

In tight, concise prose with vivid imagery that almost reads like poetry, Shomer paints entrancing pictures of women at various stages of their lives. She takes situations that range from the mundane to the quirky to elucidate women we might know - our sisters, our daughters, our wives, our mothers. Stories even a guy can appreciate.