Sharon Sloan Fiffer

Steve Fiffer

In this superb companion to the acclaimed anthologies Home and Family, Jane Smiley, Mona Simpson, and 16 more of today's most arresting and inventive literary voices offer a sumptuous array of prose pieces on the human anatomy.

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Backstage stuff

Paul Thai's journey from the killing field to the U.S. where he has to learn in U.S. where he has to learn a new language.

Paul Thai's Journey from the Killing Fields of Cambodia to Freedom in the U.S.A.

Imagining America

Jane Wheel discovers a bizarre collectible in a newly purchased trove of 1950s saloon ephemera, that sparks her curiosity about the saloon owners and prompts her, along with her husband and some friends, to investigate.

Dead Guy's Stuff

Steven Fiffer

In Home, eighteen of our finest writers evoke different rooms--from their pasts, their present, or simply their imaginations--in order to investigate the ways in which homes contain our lives. The results are touching, provocative, and sometimes hilarious. And since a portion of the editors' proceeds will go to organizations that help the homeless, Home is really where the heart is. Contributors include: Lynda Barry, Richard Bausch, Tony Earley, James Finn Garner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Allan Gurganus, Colin Harrison, Kathryn Harrison, Gish Jen, Karen Karbo, Alex Kotlowitz, Clint McCown, Susan Power, Esmeralda Santiago, Mona Simpson, Jane Smiley, Sallie Tisdale, and Bailey White. "Unforgettable...These pages are filled with the kind of details that etch a childhood place into the deep recesses of memory, that distinguish the sensual life of one family from another."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

American Writers Remember Rooms of Their Own

Home

St. Martin's Press

The debut title of new mystery series introducing Jane Wheel, former career woman who is now an antique "picker, " sniffing out "killer stuff" at estate sales, auctions, and flea markets in suburban Chicago. When she discovers the body of a fellow collector and stumbles upon a second corpse, Jane soon becomes the prime suspect. With homicide detective Bruce Oh and her best friend Tim, Jane sets out to catch a killer. Martin's Press.

Return Skids

Consumer Report

This Family, you will find that the pleasure of reading is much more than relative.

American Writers Remember Their Own

Family

In the spirit of 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth comes an inspirational primer for making a difference in the 1990s. Provides profiles of innovative volunteer programs from all over the country started by people who saw a problem in their community and took action. Includes resource guide.

A Handbook for Change

50 Ways to Help Your Community

"Jane Wheel has a lot of stuff. Vintage flowerpots, postcards, Bakelite buttons, pencil sharpeners, mismatched china, even old report cards from children she never knew peek out from the deepest corners of her home, threatening to envelop her entire life. Of course, she's not just a pack rat (or so she tells herself), it's her job: Jane is an antique picker, cruising garage sales and rummage tables looking for items she can turn around and sell to dealers or collectors, picking up a tidy profit. Trouble is, so far she's done only a little selling." "When a school permission slip lost among the towering boxes in Jane's kitchen causes her son to miss a field trip, Jane vows to get rid of it all, organizing her house and, in the process, she hopes, her life. Meanwhile, she's entertaining two offers of employment - as an associate with her friend Tim Lowry's antiques dealership and as a consultant in a private investigations firm with former police detective Bruce Oh. Unable to decide, Jane figures she'll take a crack at splitting her time between the two pursuits." "Immediately, and with fragile emotions swirling from her great house-cleaning project, Jane finds herself smack in the middle of a case that will draw on both her new jobs. An antiques dealer has been accused of murder. Jane can hardly wait to investigate - that is, until she learns the identity of the accused: Claire Oh, wife of her new partner Bruce."--BOOK JACKET.

The Wrong Stuff

From the editors of HOME comes a deeply moving collection of family memoirs in which some of our finest writers tell us where they come from. Contributors include Alice Hoffman, Edward Hoagland, Jayne Anne Phillips, Edwidge Danticat, bell hooks, Bob Shacochis, Deborah Tannen, Brent Staples, and others. A portion of the book's royalties will be donated to charitable organizations. 20 photos.

Sharon Sloan Fiffer

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