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Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction)

Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories

Penned By Katherine Vaz
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Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction)

Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories

Penned By Katherine Vaz
4.85 35,917 Ratings
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The stories in this prize-winning collection evoke a complete world, one so richly imagined and finely realized that the stories themselves are not so much read as experienced. The world of these stories is Portuguese-American, redolent of incense and spices, resonant with ritual and prayer, immersed in the California culture of freeway and commerce. Packed with lyrical prose and vivid detail, acclaimed writer Katherine Vaz conjures a captivating blend of Old World heritage and New World culture to explore the links between families, friends, strangers, and their world.From the threat of a serial killer as the background for a young girl’s first brush with death to the fallout of a modern-day visitation from the Virgin Mary; from an AIDS-stricken squatter refusing to vacate an empty Lisbon home to a mother’s yearlong struggle with the death of her synesthetic daughter, these deft stories make their world ours.

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Released 2008
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Katherine Vaz is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Katherine Vaz can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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