{"product_id":"wakeisbn-9781582432695","title":"Wake","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn her first collection of short stories, Beth Goldner looks at loss-of love, of health, of life-through the lives of ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe women of Wake are suffering--or have suffered--a profound loss, loss that has left them seeking renewal or perhaps just escape. Sometimes they long for a husband, a baby, a trinket, sometimes for something far more elusive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the title story, two sisters are slowly losing their parents to mental illness. In \"Cardiff-by-the-Sea,\" a man who lost his sight in Vietnam is reborn through a new relationship with a daughter he didn't know he had. In \"Plan B,\" a woman loses her husband to an affair with a much younger woman-and loses her grip on sanity at the same time. In \"Outcomes,\" we meet a hospice worker who steals an inconsequential token from the patients she watches die, her own strange, unethical, but intimate ritual to the life cycle. This bravura performance from a fresh literary voice, bringing together a diversity of characters in various stages of life, will touch and surprise readers as it reveals some of life's smallest but most rewarding possibilities.\u003cb\u003eBeth Goldner\u003c\/b\u003e's stories have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eMissouri Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eMassachusetts Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBlue Mesa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStory Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLiteral Latté\u003c\/i\u003e, and her work has been nominated for numerous awards. She is a managing editor for a health and medical sciences publisher in Philadelphia. She lives in Narberth, Pennsylvania.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304746569957,"sku":"NP9781582432695","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781582432694_12c6d495-3187-438f-a0a4-d57cc6e98da7.jpg?v=1730758309","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/wakeisbn-9781582432695","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}