Rituals to Observe: Stories about Holidays from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

By Sandra ThompsonPeter SelginKarin Lin-Greenberg, et al.

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 that aspect alone offers a lot to unpack.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082035659X
• ISBN13: 9780820356594
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"