{"product_id":"our-lady-of-the-artichokes-and-other-portugueseamerican-stories-9780803217904","title":"Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the threat of a serial killer as the background for a young girl's first brush with death to the fallout of a modern-day visitation from the Virgin Mary; from an AIDS-stricken squatter refusing to vacate an empty Lisbon home to a mother's yearlong struggle with the death of her daughter, this book includes stories that make their world ours.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Katherine Vaz is the sort of fiction writer who makes me wonder why the rest of us even bother. . . . My favorite book of Vaz's is \u003ci\u003eOur Lady of the Artichokes\u003c\/i\u003e.\"—Tayari Jones, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vaz is a soulful writer who understands her protagonists' complex lives, as well as the way religious beliefs can assert themselves most powerfully after leaving native soil.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This slim, sophisticated story collection demonstrates Vaz's many enviable skills. Several stories rely on a unifying theme, such as dealing with fear or coping with loss. But instead of being structured on an arc of conflict, climax and resolution, these cerebral pieces demand that readers assemble the pictures for themselves.\"—SFGate.com\u003cbr\u003e\"One comes away from these stories believing that it is possible to bargain with, sacrifice to, confront, divert, and even overcome adversity. In this wonderful collection, Vaz gives us characters who delight in the marvelous, which lurks, often undetected, just beneath the surface of our ordinary lives.\"—Joyce Wilson, \u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In Katherine Vaz’s new volume of short fiction, she demonstrates brilliantly that rare quality of truly fine writing—a deeply profound knowingness about the human condition. \u003ci\u003eOur Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories\u003c\/i\u003e will even more widely prove what is already clear to many: Katherine Vaz is a master of the short story.”—Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning \u003ci\u003eA Good Scent from a Strange Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Katherine Vaz is an old-fashioned storyteller in the best sense. Her work is sensual, rich in detail and layered history. Her stories overflow with incident and feeling. Other writers present fruit plates. Vaz serves cornucopias.”—Allegra Goodman, author of \u003ci\u003eIntuition\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKaaterskill Falls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vaz writes with quiet ease and skill—and her explorations of lives absent of grace are subtle and worth reading.\"—B. J. Hollars, \u003ci\u003ePleiades\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking a Stitch in a Dead Man's ArmAll Riptides Roar with Sand from Opposing Shores Our Lady of the ArtichokesMy Bones Here Are Waiting for YoursThe Man Who Was Made of NettingThe Knife Longs for the Ruby The Mandarin QuestionLisbon Story","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405241983319,"sku":"9780803217904","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803217904.jpg?v=1730489248","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/our-lady-of-the-artichokes-and-other-portugueseamerican-stories-9780803217904","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}