Useful Gifts (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)

by Carole L . Glickfeld (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $31.48

  Charged with the mystery of childhood, with curiosity and daring, confusion and fear, the eleven interrelated stories in Useful Gifts explore what Ruthie knows. The youngest child of profoundly deaf parents living in Manhattan in the 1940s and 1950s, Ruthie Zimmer speaks and signs. Interpreting for her parents, she tries to make sense of the world.