Women in the Grove Stories

by PETERSON, PAULA

• ISBN13: 9780807083857
• ISBN10: 0807083852
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-15
• Publisher: Beacon Press

Summary

Paula Peterson's memoir, Penitent, with Roses, was an unflinching account of her life as a woman and mother after being diagnosed as HIV positive. All the stories in Women in the Grove feature women living with HIV infection. Shot through with humor, warmth, and insight, Peterson succeeds in bringing us to a radically new understanding of life with AIDS. "Paula W. Peterson's wonderful debut collection, Women in the Grove, is about wonder and sorrow and amazing grace." --Sandra Scofield, Dallas Morning News "It's been a long time since I read a collection as strong, stirring, and surprising as Women in the Grove. Each story is tied in some way to AIDS--but thrillingly the true adventure here is the strength of the human heart. Paula Peterson is a dazzling writer." --Marcie Hershman, author of Safe in America and Speak to Me: Grief, Love and What Endures "[A] smart, confident collection." --Sven Birkerts, author of The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age "Twenty years into the epidemic, a work with something truly new to say about AIDS; that's quite an achievement." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Author Biography

Paula W. Peterson is the author of Penitent, with Roses: An HIV+ Mother Reflects, winner of the Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her short fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, Nimrod, Carolina Quarterly, The Greensboro Review, and other journals, and both her stories and essays have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. Peterson lives outside of Chicago.

Table of Contents

A Miracle	p. 1
Africa	p. 17
Big Brother	p. 38
The Woman in the Long Green Coat	p. 55
Cherry's Ghost	p. 100
Alfie and Grace	p. 117
The As and Is	p. 135
In the Grove	p. 153
Song of Camille	p. 161
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