Heirlooms: Stories

by Rachel Hall

Overview

Fiction. Jewish Studies. Montaigne Medal Finalist. Winner of the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, selected by Marge Piercy. HEIRLOOMS begins in the French seaside city of Saint-Malo, in 1939, and ends in the American Midwest in 1989. In these linked stories, the war reverberates through four generations of a Jewish family. Inspired by the author's family stories as well as extensive research, HEIRLOOMS explores assumptions about love, duty, memory and truth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781886157910
Publisher:	BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Publication date:	09/16/2016
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

Rachel Hall's short stories and essays have appeared in such journals and anthologies as Black Warrior Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gettysburg Review, Fifth Wednesday and New Letters, which awarded her the Alexander Cappon Prize for Fiction. She has also received honors and awards from Lilith, Glimmer Train, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Ragdale, the Ox-Bow School of the Arts, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Hall is professor of English in the creative writing program at the State University of New York at Geneseo, where she holds the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. She lives in Rochester, New York, with her husband and daughter. Her family's wartime papers and photographs, the inspiration for these stories, were recently donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

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