Baby, Let's Make a Baby

by Kirk Curnutt

Overview

Strangers' lives intersect on an Easter-eve interstate ... A reluctant sniper receives an unexpected education in music ... A husband withers under the weight of his wife's infidelity ... The paterfamilias of a rural Brazilian city is shocked by the lengths he's willing to go to fight a tuberculosis outbreak ... A former teen-pop princess watches in dismay as a documentary is culled from her life ... Baby, Let's Make a Baby is a collection of eleven stories that mine a range of mood and emotion, from comic absurdity to somber reflection. Whether set in the American South or in South America, in the war-ravaged cityscapes of Eastern Europe or along the eroding shores of the Great Lakes, these short fictions explore the dilemmas of complex and conflicted people trying to live with the things that they can't quite overcome.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781579660369
Publisher:	River City Publishing
Publication date:	04/20/2003
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.28(h) x 1.01(d)

Table of Contents

	Overpass	11
	Etude and Bell Tower	33
	Fall of the House of Oxley	51
	Sleeping Bear	73
	Complicity	88
	Baby, Let's Make a Baby	101
	In a Baby Orchard	118
	Down in the Flood	138
	Call Her Iemanja, But Not in Church	150
	All Apologies	190
	The Story Behind the Story (Teenage Symphonies to God)	207
	Acknowledgments	263