The Summer of Ordinary Ways

by Helget, Nicole Lea

• ISBN13: 9780873515436
• ISBN10: 0873515439
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-15
• Publisher: Borealis Books

Summary

Practising baseball with Dad, then watching him go after a cow with a pitchfork in a fit of rage. Playing chicken on the country road with semi-trucks full of hogs. Flirting with the milkman. Chasing with your sisters after Wreck and Bump, mangy mutts who prowl farmsteads killing chickens and drinking fuel oil. Dandelion wine. The ghost of a girl buried alive over a century ago. These unforgettable, sometimes hilarious images spill from a fierce and wondrous childhood into the pages of 'The Summer of Ordinary Ways'.

Author Biography

Nicole Lea Helget studies and teaches at Minnesota State University–Mankato. She is the winner of the 2004 Speakeasy Prize for Prose. This is her first book.

 

Table of Contents

The Summer of Ordinary Ways
Stain You Red
Summer 1983	3	(28)
Burn to Black
Summer 1993	31	(6)
Cockleburs in the Laundry
Summer 1984	37	(4)
Brewing
Summer 1982	41	(20)
Brimstone
Summer 1985	61	(4)
Courting the Milkman
Summer 1988	65	(20)
Rooted Here
Summer 1984	85	(16)
Vanity and the Immaculate Heart
Summer 1988	101	(26)
Caterpillar Hunting
Summer 1983	127	(12)
The Summer of Ordinary Ways
Summer 1982	139	(42)
Acknowledgments	181