Fiction. This collection of 13 stories feature characters, especially young women, who redefine their sense of belonging by reconciling with their pasts. Whether it is a plain looking woman winning ungainly notoriety as a lingerie window model, a young figure skater being lured by a stalker, or a daughter examining her mother's accidental death at a horse farm, these stories' protagonists surprise themselves and the reader by finding their places in the world through unpredictable turns. "Walter's first book is a collection of fine and finely unsettling stories"—Kristin Ohlson.
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Laura Maylene Walter is the recipient of many awards, including the 2010 G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, as judged by Robert Olen Butler; Ohioana Library Association's Walter Rumsey Marvin grant, awarded annually to an Ohio writer age 30 or under; and Washington College's Sophie Kerr Prize, the nation's largest undergraduate literary award. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Poets & Writers, The Writer, Inkwell, American Literary Review, Ohioana Quarterly, Flyway, Crab Creek Review, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere, and her novel-in-progress, Opal, was named a runner-up in the 2010 James Jones First Novel Fellowship. Most recently, she is the author of LIVING ARRANGEMENTS (BkMk Press, 2011). Laura grew up in Lancaster, PA, and has resided in the Cleveland area since 2004. She works as an editor of a trade magazine and lives with her husband and their two cats in Lakewood, Ohio.
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This book is like...well an old Gershwin tune that has specific personal memoires attached. Once you read the stories you will never quite be able to get them out of your mind. The title piece recollects places the narrator has lived over her life (and I guarantee you will be doing the same thing). I played my brother's clarinet, so that story rings uncomfortably true.
Some like, "The Ballad Solemn of Lady Malena" and "The Last Haloween" are harrowing pieces you want to skip over, but can't; whereas "The Second Rule of Yoga" lists questions all of us have but are too ashamed to ask.
Laura Maylene Walter is not like any other short story writer I am familiar with. You almost feel, as a reader, you are writing the content. It connects that well. I couldn't put Living Arrangements down. My only wish is that it were my name as author on the cover.
John Lehman, Rosebud Book Reviews.com
Some like, "The Ballad Solemn of Lady Malena" and "The Last Haloween" are harrowing pieces you want to skip over, but can't; whereas "The Second Rule of Yoga" lists questions all of us have but are too ashamed to ask.
Laura Maylene Walter is not like any other short story writer I am familiar with. You almost feel, as a reader, you are writing the content. It connects that well. I couldn't put Living Arrangements down. My only wish is that it were my name as author on the cover.
John Lehman, Rosebud Book Reviews.com
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