Thirsty
| Year of Publication |
2009
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
207 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Publisher |
Swallow Press
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| City |
Athens, OH
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| Abstract |
Klara, a 16-year-old newlywed, quickly learns that her new husband Drago is as malevolent as the father she left in the Old Country. The episodic novel demonstrates how she copes. Says Publishers Weekly, “O'Keeffe's debut gracefully encapsulates the working-class cycle of poverty and hopelessness in the lives of these hard-laboring, sympathetic wives and mothers.” The novel is set in Thirsty, the nickname for the immigrant enclave of a steel town called Pleasant Slopes.
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| Author Biography |
Kristin Bair O'Keeffe (1966— ) was raised in Bethel Park, Allegheny County. She earned a BA in English at Indiana University Bloomington and a MFA in creative writing at Columbia College Chicago. After living in Shanghai, China for four years, she resides in Andover, Massachusetts.
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| Time |
1883-1919
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