{"product_id":"mother-who-stayed-stories-9781439194652","title":"Mother Who Stayed: Stories","description":"In nine strikingly perceptive stories set miles and decades apart, Laura Furman mines the intricate, elusive lives of mothers and daughters--and of women who long for someone to nurture. Meet Rachel, a young girl desperate for her mother's unbridled attention, knowing that soon she'll have to face the world alone; Marian, a celebrated novelist who betrays the one person willing to take care of her as she is dying--her unclaimed \"daughter\"; and Dinah, a childless widow uplifted by the abandoned, century-old diaries of Mary Ann, a mother of eleven. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mother Who Stayed \u003c\/i\u003eis an homage to the timeless, primal bond between mother and child and a testament that the relationships we can't define can be just as poignant, memorable, and inspiring as those determined by blood. Tender and insightful, Furman's stories also bravely confront darker realities of separation and regret, death and infidelity--even murder. Her vividly imagined characters and chiseled prose close the gap between generations of women as they share their wisdom almost in chorus: Although our lives will end, we must cherish the sanctity of each day and say, as did Mary Ann ages ago, \"I done what I could.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Furman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Free Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.56w x 0.58d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439194652\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/20\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2011 pg. 42\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFurman, Laura:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Laura Furman was born in New York, and educated in New York City public schools and at Bennington College. Her first story appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e in 1976, and since then her work has been published in many magazines, including \u003ci\u003eYale Review, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSouthwest Review, Ploughshares, American Scholar, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePreservation, House \u0026amp; Garden, \u003c\/i\u003e and other magazines. Her books include three collections of short stories\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003etwo novels, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand a memoir. She is the recipient of fellowships from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Dobie Paisano Project, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has received grants in residency at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and in 2009 she was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. She taught for many years in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Series editor of \u003ci\u003eThe PEN\/O.Henry Prize Stories \u003c\/i\u003esince 2002, Furman selects the twenty winning stories each year. She lives in Central Texas.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Free Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44707455893619,"sku":"9781439194652","price":19.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_e300c5a1-7b0b-4afe-9092-7b4eaeeb0cd1.jpg?v=1775840146","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/mother-who-stayed-stories-9781439194652","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}