Full Description
The sixty-eight short works in this collection (some only a paragraph, others a few pages) straddle memoir and fiction, exploring the nuances of sexuality, motherhood, love, and ambition. Like Lydia Davis, Aurelie Sheehan's stories are potent miniatures that blossom out from seemingly insignificant encounters and objects. Jewelry Box is a collection of intimate renderings of the life that surrounds us, just under the surface. Aurelie Sheehan is author of two novels, History Lesson for Girls and The Anxiety of Everyday Objects, and the story collection Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Jewelry Box 1
T-Shirt 4
Duck 6
Story 8
Telephone Call 10
Cup of Coffee 13
Shoes 14
A Liar and Her Brother 16
Suntan Lotion 18
Rage 20
Sexual Fantasy 21
Mascara 23
Bra 25
Daughter 26
House 27
Poetry Reading 29
Letters 30
Age at Which You Consider History 33
Pillbox 34
Book 37
Photograph 39
Car Ride 41
Hair 46
Living Room 47
Paper in Back of Folder 45
Artists 50
Joke 52
Wallet 57
Boat 59
Dishes the Cat Used, Now Stored in the Laundry Room 60
Glass 63
Gun 64
Talk 66
Purse 67
Loneliness 70
Rabbits 71
Big Truck 73
Texas 74
Grain of Sand 77
Television 78
Unremembered Thing 80
Plastic Bits 81
Ambition 82
Pain 83
Vampire 89
Motherhood 90
Loss Itself 92
Kitchen 93
Bratz Doll 95
Boots 96
Cigarette 97
Stone 98
Old Girlfriend 99
Kleenex Box 100
Devotion 102
Mushroom Paté 103
Quote 105
Body of Water 106
Tail 107
Small Buddha 108
Color Chart 109
Density 111
Song 113
Fire 114
Policemen 115
Paper Bag 116
Mermaid 118
Tooth 119
