Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories, by Bonnie Jo Campbell
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Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories, by Bonnie Jo Campbell
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From the author of National Book Award finalist American Salvage comes a dazzling and suspenseful new story collection.
Named by the Guardian as one of our top ten writers of rural noir, Bonnie Jo Campbell is a keen observer of life and trouble in rural America, and her working-class protagonists can be at once vulnerable, wise, cruel, and funny. The strong but flawed women of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters must negotiate a sexually charged atmosphere as they love, honor, and betray one another against the backdrop of all the men in their world. Such richly fraught mother-daughter relationships can be lifelines, anchors, or they can sink a woman like a stone.
In "My Dog Roscoe," a new bride becomes obsessed with the notion that her dead ex-boyfriend has returned to her in the form of a mongrel. In "Blood Work, 1999," a phlebotomist's desire to give away everything to the needy awakens her own sensuality. In "Home to Die," an abused woman takes revenge on her bedridden husband. In these fearless and darkly funny tales about women and those they love, Campbell’s spirited American voice is at its most powerful.
--- Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories, by Bonnie Jo Campbell- Amazon Sales Rank: #152984 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.60" h x 1.00" w x 5.90" l, .94 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 272 pages
Review “Like the women in her stories, Campbell’s prose can be watchful and viscerally alive.” (New York Times Book Review)“Bonnie Jo Campbell is a master of rural America’s postindustrial landscape…. Shine each story does, just like two laughing showgirls who, Campbell writes, ‘without wigs and makeup, dressed in their jogging shorts and tanks…seemed like carefree teenage boys.’” (Boston Globe)“The book thrums with powerful young women.” (Chicago Tribune)“It's a hard-luck, hardscrabble life in the world of Bonnie Jo Campbell's stories, a landscape that's as fertile as it is unforgiving, where families crop up and wither with the weather but manage some piquant humor and moments of worthy reckoning along the way.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)“With grit and reverence, this story collection is gorgeous in its honesty.” (Marie Claire)“Mothers, Tell Your Daughters is filled with shifts…when a turn of fate, a moment in nature, brings surprises and revealing insights. And within the turmoil and the troubles, the demands and the limits of life, Campbell reminds us, there are possibilities for moments of grace.” (NPR Online)“What it comes down to, in Campbell’s world and in ours, is that to be female is to fight all kinds of trouble with all kinds of strength.” (Oprah Magazine)“Campbell grounds us in such graphic grit, making these lives so bitterly, relentlessly real, we want to reach through the pages and pull them to safety―aware, alas, that many would firmly refuse rescue.” (San Francisco Chronicle)
About the Author Bonnie Jo Campbell teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific University. The author of Once Upon a River and American Salvage, she lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. A Fantastic Short Story Collection By Tina Says I don't often read short story collections, but generally enjoy them when I do. Bonnie Campbell's book, Mothers, Tell Your Daughters is my most recent experience with short stories, and just reinforces the fact that I should read them more often.Campbell's stories center around women- women who often have been dealt a tough hand in life. From drinking, abusive men, unwanted pregnancy, and struggling to get by, these women have all had their share of challenges. Campbell does a great job representing the lives of financially challenged women in rural America.Because I'm not someone with a great deal of experience in short story reading, I'm never sure if a book like this is meant to be devoured in one sitting, or read and savored more slowly, one story at a time.Typically I read books quickly, and this was no exception. The one problem in this case was that many of Campbell's stories were similar, and felt a little repetitive. This didn't cause me lose interest and the stories continued to be enjoyable, but I am wondering if I would have liked them even more if I read one each night before bed instead of devouring the entire collection in one afternoon.Mothers, Tell Your Daughters is a great story collection that won't disappoint readers and reaffirms my experience with this genre.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Stories of women, young and old; happy and not so happy - each equally real and alive By Eugenia If it was up to me this collection of short stories should be a required read for every high school student. While girls would benefit from the stories the most, it would be a good education for boys too on what happens to young girls and women, how vulnerable they are and what it means to have a casual sex that can lead to a lifetime of poverty and misery.For any mothers too shy to talk to their daughters about coming of age, addressing issues such as rape, teenage sex, abuse (verbal or physical) these are the stories that bring it all to life. All of these stories are set in Michigan, with exception of one that is taking place during vacation in Romania and protagonists are all Chicago residents. Most people in the stories are middle class people some even belonging to the class of poor and neglected. Each and every story is strong and power and I was drawn to every story from the very first story I read. I was shocked when I realized that the first story was less than 2 pages long and yet it shook me to the core of my being. I re-read it three times and simply could not shake it off my mind.The favorite story of all in this collection is "Daughters of the Animal Kingdom". But it is "Somewhere Warm" that touched my heart. It is simply a story of so many human beings, who at their core are good, kind and caring. As author says, those people (like Sherry who is the main character of the story) are like the sun. To quote : "Loving was as natural for a good person as shinning was for the sun, and the sun shone whether the plants appreciated it or not. Some people, like Josh, could return your love, and other could only absorb it, the way black hole took in all the light and agave nothing back, but that didn't diminish the shinning."Author Bonnie Jo Campbell created a fine collection of stories that definitely deserver attention and praise and hopefully there will be reading audience out there to truly appreciate it. Ms. Campbell teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific University and lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She published four more books prior to this one and it is a fine storyteller. I loved this book for start to finish.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Women in crisis By KasaC Each of these stories, featuring a woman in crisis, is original in execution and material. Whether it features a battered wife finally getting what revenge she can, a daughter repeating the mistakes of her mother, or a mother watching her own mother's end of days even as she makes choices that she never thought she'd make, each story comes alive with unexpected vitality, displaying a consistent virtuosity that never falls short.
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