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Rituals to Observe: Stories about Holidays from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
By Ethan Laughman (Editor), Gail Galloway Adams (Contribution by), David Crouse (Contribution by), Molly Giles (Contribution by), Carole L. Glickfeld (Contribution by), Jacquelin Gorman (Contribution by), Peter LaSalle (Contribution by), Karin Lin-Greenberg (Contribution by), Becky Mandelbaum (Contribution by), Alyce Miller (Contribution by), Dianne Nelson Oberhansly (Contribution by), Peter Selgin (Contribution by), Hugh Sheehy (Contribution by), Sandra Thompson (Contribution by)
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By Ethan Laughman (Editor), Gail Galloway Adams (Contribution by), David Crouse (Contribution by), Molly Giles (Contribution by), Carole L. Glickfeld (Contribution by), Jacquelin Gorman (Contribution by), Peter LaSalle (Contribution by), Karin Lin-Greenberg (Contribution by), Becky Mandelbaum (Contribution by), Alyce Miller (Contribution by), Dianne Nelson Oberhansly (Contribution by), Peter Selgin (Contribution by), Hugh Sheehy (Contribution by), Sandra Thompson (Contribution by)
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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 ...