![]() In Wake in the Night, we are reminded why we must push beyond easy categories and find new ways of understanding the roles we play. ![]() By employing forms that break with convention in the same spirited ways her characters do, Laura Krughoff creates a world of stunning detail that examines just what people will do when expectations stifle truth. Spanning the last century with narrators aged 10 to 100, these stories reveal women struggling to fit a definition of womanhood that cannot contain them. In the small towns of the Midwest, girls and women dream of finding voice and forcing the world to listen. by Laura Krughoff First published in 2013 1 edition in 1 language 1 previewable Borrow Listen. ![]() Marriages occur in the 1930s for lack of other opportunities a young girl dances to Thriller for her friend’s older brother a pastor remembers her childhood spent fantasizing that she is the prophet John the Baptist. Laura Krughoff is the author of the mini-book of short fiction Wake in the Night (Arc Pair Press, 2018) and the novel My Brother’s Name (Scarletta Press, 2013), which was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction. Author of My brother's name, Wake in the Night. ![]() Christopher Grimes, author of The Pornographers and Public Works: Short Fiction and a Novella Six stories span a century of rural American women. ![]() Laura Kroghoff’s stories have the lyrical exuberance of a Grace Paley in their bones. ![]()
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