Mothers, Tell Your Daughters Stories [Paperback]

Like the women in her stories, Campbells prose can be watchful and viscerally alive.The book thrums with powerful young women.With grit and reverence, this story collection is gorgeous in its honesty.What it comes down to, in Campbells world and in ours, is that to be female is to fight all kinds of trouble with all kinds of strength.Campbell grounds us in such graphic grit, making these lives so bitterly, relentlessly real, we want to reach through the pages and pull them to safetyaware, alas, that many would firmly refuse rescue. Bonnie Jo Campbell is a master of rural Americas postindustrial landscape.