Overview
The title story tells of Marian Nakamura who pickles the fallen pears to remember a husband who took a fatal fall from an upper branch of a pear tree. The story won a place on the final ten list of a 2010 "The New Yorker" magazine competition. In another story a Minnesota woman learns to paint in Santa Fe and finds acclaim for her colorful canvases, only to walk away from them. A Native American artist paints a cathedral scene, loosing the powers of old spirits. An even more notable force breaks into a fourth painter's life, the ancient Old Goddess wanting a place in the new world.
- | Author: Douglas Atwill
- | Publisher: Sunstone Press
- | Publication Date: Jul 07, 2014
- | Number of Pages: 84 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0865349991
- | ISBN-13: 9780865349995
