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Format	Hardback
Published	March 9, 2018
ISBN-13	9780813175126
Language	English
Pages	200
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Width	6.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	.9 Pounds (US)
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Make Way for Her

Name: Make Way for Her
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Author: Katie Cortese
ISBN: 9780813175126

And Other Stories

By Katie Cortese

University Press of Kentucky

A girl afflicted with pyrokinesis tries to control her fire-starting long enough to go to a dance with a boy she likes. A woman trapped in a stalled marriage is excited by an alluring ex-con who enrolls in her YMCA cooking class. A teen accompanies her mother, a prestigious poet, to a writing conference where she navigates a misguided attraction to a married writer—who is, in turn, attracted to her mother—leaving her "inventing punishments for writers who believe in clichés as tired as broken hearts."

In this affecting collection, Katie Cortese explores the many faces of love and desire. Featuring female narrators that range in age from five to forty, the narratives in Make Way for Her speak to the many challenges and often bittersweet rewards of offering, receiving, and returning love as imperfect human beings. The stories are united by the theme of desperate love, whether it's a daughter's love for a parent, a sister's for a sibling, or a romantic love that is sometimes returned and sometimes unrequited.

Cortese's complex and multilayered stories play with the reader's own desires and anticipations as her characters stubbornly resist the expected. The intrepid girls and women in this book are, above all, explorers. They drive classic cars from Maine to Phoenix, board airplanes for the first time, and hike dense forests in search of adventure; but what they often find is that the most treacherous landscapes lie within. As a result, Make Way for Her explores a world of women who crave knowledge and experience, not simply sex or love.

About the Author

Katie Cortese is the author of Girl Power and Other Short-Short Stories. Her stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Blackbird, Gulf Coast, Wigleaf, and the Baltimore Review. The former editor-in-chief of the Southeast Review, she now serves as the fiction editor for Iron Horse Literary Review and teaches in the creative writing program at Texas Tech University.

Reviews

"Heartening, and unusually thoughtful, this collection of stories places the young women, their feelings and minds (not just their bodies) at the center. In that way, it seems more true to what adolescence in young women can be: full of mistaken attachments, questioning actions, and, sometimes, provocative men who may be a wrong choice, may appear to represent freedom that, in fact, will be due to the young woman's own agency and growth."—Crystal Wilkinson, recipient of the 2016 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for The Birds of Opulence

"What distinguishes this collection from others of its kind are stories that are engrossing, visceral, and strange enough to be singular."—Leslie Singleton, University of Illinois

"Some of the many foolhardy, vulnerable and brave ways innocence insists upon bittersweet experience are superbly portrayed in Katie Cortese's Make Way For Her and Other Stories. With sensuous prose, achingly authentic characters and precise narrative skill, Cortese enthralls and stuns, page after page, story upon story. A magnificent, heartbreaking collection."—Melissa Pritchard, author of A Solmen Pleasure and Palmerino

"This collection is not about understanding our young people. It's about living and breathing inside their bodies and heads. Salinger can step aside now. Make way for Katie Cortese!"—Dennis Covington, author of Salvation on Sand Mountain

"Katie Cortese's Make Way for Her and Other Stories offers enticing glimpses of curiously compact, womencentric fictional universes, generally focused on girls, teenagers, women, and the men who affect—but not necessarily impact—their lives. Cortese's writing is smoothly compelling and adapts from voice to voice. Though the varied women of Make Way for Her are emerging and evolving, making right and wrong choices along the way, for the most part they share an appealing internal wisdom that keeps them true to their real selves, and will hopefully also keep them on the right course."—Foreword Reviews

"The collections' strongest stories portray fragile romantic connections with unsparing criticism, voice uncomfortable truths about the way young people interact in modern culture, and ask questions about how girls approach freedom and desire. These portraits are a welcome addition to the burgeoning canon of finely wrought female stories."—Kirkus Reviews

"Cortese's collection is sometimes hopeful, sometimes heartbreaking, and always authentic. This beautiful collection is for any woman who desires a trip back to times past and for any girl who wants a roadmap to see what lies ahead."—Review of Texas Books

Publisher	University Press of Kentucky
Series	Contemporary Poetry And Prose
BISAC Subject Headings	FICTION / Short Stories (130 Titles) FICTION / Women (39 Titles) FICTION / Family Life / General (22 Titles)

Format	Hardback
Published	March 9, 2018
ISBN-13	9780813175126
Language	English
Pages	200
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	.9 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$19.95 USD, £20.50 GBP
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Format	Electronic book text
Published	March 9, 2018
ISBN-13	9780813175133
Print Edition	9780813175126
Language	English
Pages	200
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
List Prices	$19.95 USD, £20.50 GBP
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Format	Electronic book text
Published	March 9, 2018
ISBN-13	9780813175140
Print Edition	9780813175126
Language	English
Pages	200
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
List Prices	$19.95 USD, £20.50 GBP
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