All that Work and Still No Boys (University of Iowa Press) by Kathryn Ma

How to Leave Hialeah (University of Iowa Press) by Jennine Capo Crucet

Two winners of the Iowa Short Fiction Award read from their story collections!

Kathryn Ma, a first-generation American whose parents are from Wuxi and Mengzi, China, was born and raised a Pennsylvania Quaker. Her stories have appeared in the Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, Southwest Review, Threepenny Review, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. Ma won the 2008 David Nathan Meyerson Prize for Fiction for her title story; her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best New American Voices. A lawyer and a Bread Loaf Scholar, she has taught in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Oregon. She is the founding board chair of the San Francisco Friends School. Ma lives in San Francisco with her family.

Jennine Capó Crucet was born to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, the Southern Review, the Northwest Review, and other magazines. She is the recipient of a Bread Loaf Scholarship and has been a finalist for the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize and the University of California, Irvine, Chicano/Latino Literary Prize. A graduate of Cornell University, she currently lives and writes in Los Angeles.

How to Leave Hialeah (Paperback)

By Jennine Capo Crucet

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ISBN-13: 9781587298165
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Published: University Of Iowa Press, 9/2009

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United in their fierce sense of place and infused with the fading echoes of a lost homeland, the stories in Jennine Capo Crucet's striking debut collection do for Miami what Edward P. Jones does for Washington, D.C., and what James Joyce did for Dublin: they expand our ideas and our expectations of the city by exposing its tough but vulnerable underbelly.

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All That Work and Still No Boys (Paperback)

By Kathryn Ma

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ISBN-13: 9781587298226
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Published: University Of Iowa Press, 9/2009

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How do we survive our family, stay bound to our community, and keep from losing ourselves? In "All That Work and Still No Boys," Kathryn Ma exposes the deepest fears and longings that we mask in family life and observes the long shadows cast by history and displacement. Here are ten stories that wound and satisfy in equal measure. Ma probes the immigrant experience, most particularly among northern California's Chinese Americans, illuminating for us the confounding nature of duty, transformation, and loss.

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