Rituals to Observe: Stories about Holidays from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

These stories amount to something more than a celebration of the holidays dotting our calendars from month to month. Even though holidays can occasion a return to the familiar, these stories challenge traditional associations. Each story serves to complicate how we observe the human observation of holidays and offers a nuanced understanding of related themes such as family and motherhood, travel, grief and mourning processes, and memory. More generally, holidays are days of observance, and that aspect alone offers a lot to unpack.

Author: Ethan Laughman
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 09/01/2019
Pages: 244
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780820356594

About the Author
ETHAN LAUGHMAN is a recruitment, marketing, and communications specialist at the University of Georgia's College of Environment and Design. Among the few who have read every Flannery O'Connor Award-winning volume, he has collaborated closely with the series' authors in compiling these new anthologies.