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Book SynopsisA collection of stories about women living on the West Coast of America. In ""Our Lady of the 43 Sorrows"", the protagonist must meet the needs of her brain-damaged mother while her own career declines, and in ""Pagan Night"", a mother waits with her unwanted child in a zoo while her partner buys dope.
Trade ReviewMs. Braverman possesses a magical, incantatory voice and the ability to loft ordinary lives into the heightened world of myth, and in using these gifts . . . she has succeeded in creating a work of hallucinatory, poetic power.""—
The New York Times ""That Braverman is gifted, even prodigiously so, there is no doubt . . . her fiction is distinguished by the purity of language and boldness of imagery that seem to be the private stock of poets."" —
The Los Angeles Times “Kate Braverman has long been among the great American systematizers of obsession and revelation in prose.
Small Craft Warnings nods at the tremendous accomplishment of Braverman’s early work but advances forcefully in new directions, too, particularly in its sympathy for young people. If you haven’t tapped this rich vein of language already give yourself a gift.” —Rick Moody
