Separate Kingdoms: Stories

"A work of daunting versatility and technical skill, the product of a writer absolutely at home in the language and working vigorously within both new and old forms." --Michael Byers, author of Long for this World and The Coast of Good Intentions

From Pushcart Prize-winner Valerie Laken, author of Dream House, comes a riveting short story collection charting the divisions and collisions between cultures and nations, families and lovers, selves and others in the United States and Russia. In the tradition of Lydia Peelle, Barbara Johnson, and David Mitchell, Laken creates incisive and illuminating portraits of characters coping with loss, estrangement, and disability, confined by their circumstances to separate kingdoms of the heart.

Author: Valerie Laken
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 03/29/2011
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780060840945

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/20/2010
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2011
Library Journal 01/01/2011 pg. 92
Booklist 02/01/2011 pg. 31

About the Author
Laken, Valerie: -

Valerie Laken teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her first novel, Dream House, was named of one Booklist's Top Ten First Novels and Kirkus Review's Best Books of 2009.