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PublisherTexas Review Press

ISBN-101680032615

ISBN-139781680032611

eBay Product ID (ePID)15050388591

Product Key Features

Book TitleMixed Company : Stories

Number of Pages245 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2021

TopicContemporary Women, General, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorJenny Shank

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight10.4 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2021-017016

Reviews"I don't know the last time I devoured so quickly--so completely--a book of short fiction. The stories in Mixed Company are breezy, vivid, at turns delightful and aching--and quite serious. Truly, across chasms of gender, race, and class, across generations and just across town, these stories aim to do nothing less than remind us of the messiness and grace of reaching out to one another." -- Joe Wilkins , author of Fall Back Down When I Die and The Mountain and the Fathers, "Jenny Shank can write about anything and it is full of love and promise and grace, and she is not sentimental. I don't think one story yet has passed by without bringing tears to my eyes." --Lucia Berlin, New York Times Bestselling author of A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories, "Jenny Shank can write about anything and it is full of love and promise and grace, and she is not sentimental. I don't think one story yet has passed by without bringing tears to my eyes." -- Lucia Berlin , New York Times Bestselling author of A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories, "I don't know the last time I devoured so quickly--so completely--a book of short fiction. The stories in Mixed Company are breezy, vivid, at turns delightful and aching--and quite serious. Truly, across chasms of gender, race, and class, across generations and just across town, these stories aim to do nothing less than remind us of the messiness and grace of reaching out to one another." --Joe Wilkins, author of Fall Back Down When I Die and The Mountain and the Fathers

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813.008/035878883

Table Of ContentContents L'homme de ma vie 10 Lightest Lights Against Darkest Darks 34 Casa del Rey 55 Moonlight, Starlight, Boogie Won't Be Out Tonight 73 La Sexycana 78 Last Summer's Song 100 Hurts 104 Local Honey 119 Signing for Linemen 134 Community Relations 159 Every Happy Family 176 The Sit-In 180 Acknowledgments 203

SynopsisIn Mixed Company Jenny Shank reveals moments of grace and connection between people of her hometown, Denver, through stories that contrast the city during its oil-bust era of economic troubles and court-ordered crosstown busing for racial desegregation with the burgeoning and gentrifying city of recent years. In "Casa del Rey," a cautious pregnant woman must contend with her out-of-control and intrusive neighbor. In "Hurts," a girls' basketball team at a majority Black Denver high school clashes with a white mountain team. In "La Sexycana," a bottom-feeding journalist ventures to a dance club to confront the young Latina woman she mentored as a teenager who then cut off all contact with her. "Lightest Lights Against Darkest Darks" follows a white middle schooler bused to a majority Black school who falls under the spell of her magnetic and racially ambiguous art teacher. In "Signing for Linemen," a graduate student in medieval literature takes a job as a summer tutor for a college football team and ends up learning more than she expected about athletes, American Sign Language, and herself. In "Local Honey," middle-aged white parents bring their adopted Black teenage son to a Wu-Tang Clan concert in an attempt to bond with him. Characters find their initial perceptions and ideas overturned in these stories laced with humor, heart, and grit. Jenny Shank forges fiction out of the sparks that fly when diverse people encounter one another. Winner of The 2020 George Garrett Fiction Prize, selected by Joe Wilkins Fiction Winner of the 2022 Colorado Book Awards, In Mixed Company Jenny Shank reveals moments of grace and connection between people of her hometown, Denver, through stories that contrast the city during its oil-bust era of economic troubles and court-ordered crosstown busing for racial desegregation with the burgeoning and gentrifying city of recent years.

LC Classification NumberPS3619.H35469M59