Full name: The Tiger in the Grass: Stories and Other Inventions

Author: Harriet Doerr Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Short Stories Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9780140251487 0140251480

In her first collection of stories and pieces, Harriet Doerr explores the magical power of memory and brings us a wealth of unforgettable characters: eccentric eighty-two-year-old Great-Aunt Alice, who, empowered by a lucid memory, lived out her final, physically debilitated years with grace; Edie, who arrives in California from England to bring sanity and peace to a house with five half-orphaned children and a despairing widower; Paco, eight years old, and Gloria, eleven, children caught between the longing and pleasures of childhood and the harsh mature realities of their meager circumstances in a Mexican village. These and other characters are captured in the web of life with a startling sensitivity that will touch the reader at every turn. “Strikingly pure and radiant.”— The New York Times Book Review Similar books: Aliens of Affection by Padgett Powell What Was Mine by Ann Beattie Flying Leap by Judy Budnitz Nightwork by Christine Schutt Here We Are in Paradise by Tony Earley At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom by Amy Hempel Where You'll Find Me by Ann Beattie Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain The World of Apples by John Cheever Charity by Mark Richard The Moon in Its Flight by Gilbert Sorrentino The Age of Miracles by Ellen Gilchrist If the River Was Whiskey by T. Coraghessan Boyle Emperor of the Air by Ethan Canin The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau