Blood and milk : stories
/ Sharon Solwitz
- 1st ed
- Louisville, KY : Sarabande Books , c1997
- 236 p. ; 24 cm.
- San Miguel de Allende (Mexico)--Author .
Located in Gloria Grant Room - special collection of San Miguel de Allende authors.
Blood -- The country to herself -- Obst vw -- Small talk -- Editing -- The hand is not ironic -- Fossilized -- Mercy -- If you step on a crack -- Milk -- Polio.
Social and political contradictions, the transcendence of personal histories, and hierarchies of victimhood are the themes explored here, mainly by women in their 30s who feel immobilized by a conviction that everyone else is more certain about things than they themselves are.