{"product_id":"make-way-for-her-and-other-stories-hardcover","title":"Make Way for Her: And Other Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatie Cortese\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA girl afflicted with pyrokinesis tries to control her fire-starting long enough to go to a dance with a boy she likes. A woman trapped in a stalled marriage is excited by an alluring ex-con who enrolls in her YMCA cooking class. A teen accompanies her mother, a prestigious poet, to a writing conference where she navigates a misguided attraction to a married writer-who is, in turn, attracted to her mother-leaving her \"inventing punishments for writers who believe in clichés as tired as broken hearts.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this affecting collection, Katie Cortese explores the many faces of love and desire. Featuring female narrators that range in age from five to forty, the narratives in \u003ci\u003eMake Way for Her\u003c\/i\u003e speak to the many challenges and often bittersweet rewards of offering, receiving, and returning love as imperfect human beings. The stories are united by the theme of desperate love, whether it's a daughter's love for a parent, a sister's for a sibling, or a romantic love that is sometimes returned and sometimes unrequited.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCortese's complex and multilayered stories play with the reader's own desires and anticipations as her characters stubbornly resist the expected. The intrepid girls and women in this book are, above all, explorers. They drive classic cars from Maine to Phoenix, board airplanes for the first time, and hike dense forests in search of adventure; but what they often find is that the most treacherous landscapes lie within. As a result, \u003ci\u003eMake Way for Her\u003c\/i\u003e explores a world of women who crave knowledge and experience, not simply sex or love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatie Cortese\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eGirl Power and Other Short-Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. Her stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as \u003ci\u003eBlackbird, Gulf Coast, Wigleaf\u003c\/i\u003e, and the\u003ci\u003e Baltimore Review\u003c\/i\u003e. The former editor-in-chief of the \u003ci\u003eSoutheast Review\u003c\/i\u003e, she now serves as the fiction editor for \u003ci\u003eIron Horse Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e and teaches in the creative writing program at Texas Tech University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.1 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 09, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722549366847,"sku":"9780813175126","price":34.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ba841590950e5d4dc01f8728a2d47b68.webp?v=1765096132","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/make-way-for-her-and-other-stories-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}