Can You Wave Bye, Bye, Baby?; Stories

by Elyse Gasco

• ISBN13: 9780312263003
• ISBN10: 0312263007
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-08-05
• Publisher: Picador

Summary

From this funny, wise, and fresh new voice comes a collection of eight stories about adoption and birth, parents and children "The Real True Story is a powerful, poignant collection of thematically interwoven stories about relationships between parents and children, especially mothers and daughters. Each story explores the complex and often volatile terrain of adoption and birth. We meet young adopted women who yearn for the sense of family that blood ties bring, and mothers who struggle with the decision to give their babies up. A grown woman who was adopted tries to imagine her birth mother's life, a young girl is abducted by her father and shares a series of strange adventures with him, a teenage mother plans to give up her newborn, a pregnant wife considers abortion. Edgy, urban, bold and vibrant, "The Real True Story marks the emergence of a young writer who understands the human heart and the secret lives of ordinary people.

Author Biography

Elyse Gasco was born in Montreal and lives there currently. She has degrees in Creative Writing from Condordia University and New York University. She is the recipient of the Journey Prize, Canada's most prestigious award for short fiction.

Table of Contents

A Well-Imagined Life	1	(22)
You Have the Body	23	(26)
Elements	49	(28)
The Third Person	77	(40)
Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?	117	(38)
The Spider of Bumba	155	(34)
Mother: Not a True Story	189	(52)
Acknowledgements	241