Driving in Cars with Homeless Men
Driving in Cars with Homeless Men
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Winner of the 2019 Drue Heinz Prize for Literature, selected by Min Jin Lee
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Driving in Cars with Homeless Men by Kate Wisel
A Library Journal Best Book of 2019 Driving in Cars with Homeless Men is a love letter to women moving through violence. These linked stories are set in the streets and the bars, the old homes, the tiny apartments, and the landscape of a working-class Boston. Serena, Frankie, Raffa, and Nat collide and break apart like pool balls to come back together in an imagined post-divorce future. Through the gritty, unraveling truths of their lives, they find themselves in the bed of an overdosed lover, through the panting tongue of a rescue dog who is equally as dislanguaged as his owner, in the studio apartment of a compulsive liar, sitting backward but going forward in the galley of an airplane, in relationships that are at once playgrounds and cages. Homeless Men is the collective story of women whose lives careen back into the past, to the places where pain lurks and haunts. With riotous energy and rage, they run towards the future in the hopes of untangling themselves from failure to succeed and fail again.
You can hear the crackle of heat and the roar of a powerful fire burning through these pagesYoung angry women, brokenhearted mothers, and men who are lost to themselves and others struggle in the world of Driving in Cars with Homeless Men. Close to the edge, fearful of love yet dying of longing, Serena, Frankie, Raffa, and Natalya are vital and tender. Their stories are incandescent."" - Min Jin Lee, 2019 Drue Heinz Literature Prize judge and author of Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko, finalist for the National Book Award
Kate Wisel is a native of Boston. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in publications that include Gulf Coast, New Ohio Review, Tin House online, Redivider as winner of the Beacon Street Prize, and on the Boston subway as
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780822945680 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822945681 |
| Title | Driving in Cars with Homeless Men |
| Author | Kate Wisel |
| Series | Drue Heinz Literature Prize |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Year published | 2019-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 185 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |