Morris Laura Leigh Morris

Jaws of Life (eBook, ePUB)

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• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the hills of north central West Virginia, there lives a cast of characters who face all manner of problems. From the people who are incarcerated in West Virginia's prisons, to a woman who is learning how to lose her sight with grace, to another who sorely regrets selling her land to a fracking company, Jaws of Life portrays the diverse concerns the people of this region face every day-poverty, mental illness, drug abuse, the loss of coal mines, and the rise of new extractive industries that exert their own toll.

While these larger concerns exist on the edges of their realities, these characters must still deal with quotidian difficulties: how to coexist with ex-spouses, how to care for sick family members, and how to live with friends who always seem to have more.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: West Virginia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781946684165
• Artikelnr.: 72475295

Autorenporträt

Laura Leigh Morris is an assistant professor at Furman University. She has previously published short fiction in the Louisville Review, Weave Magazine , Conclave: A Journal of Character, and other journals. She spent three years as the National Endowment for the Arts/Bureau of Prisons Artist-in-Residence at Bryan Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas. She is from north central West Virginia. This is her first book.