About the Author:
ANN HARLEMAN'S collection, Happiness, won the 1993 University of Iowa Short Fiction Award. She has been a Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellow and received a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award in 1991. She is a Research Associate in the American Civilization Department at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where she makes her home.
From Library Journal:
Gort Hutchins has a history of leaving and then returning to his family when he becomes overwhelmed by the responsibilities of life. This time, his disappearance seems more permanent and has a profound effect on his wife, Judith, and daughter, Lil. Stubborn, independent, and full of teenage angst, Lil is determined to prove herself faithful to her father's memory. Judith, however, has long since accepted the fact that the essence of Gort has been lost to her for years. Ironically, as Lil tries to prove her herself different from Judith, she falls into the same pattern from which Gort and Judith need to escape. Harleman (Happiness, LJ 3/1/94) uses the tension between Judith and Lil to explore themes of abandonment, loss, and acceptance. A well-written debut by a writer of promise; recommended.?Caroline M. Hallsworth, Cambrian Coll., Sudbury, Ont.
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