Foreign Ground: Stories - Kasten, Kate
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The people in these eight stories all travel across the divide between the familiar and the foreign. For some it is a geographical journey, for others it's psychological. In most it's both. In this arresting collection, a survivor of the Chinese Cultural Revolution arrives forty years later at a U.S. university, where his ability to teach in English is tested. A small town's butterfly sanctuary conjures for an old woman disturbing memories of the Mayan ruins at Tikal and the civil war in Guatemala. A German bride makes the crossing from the smoke-stained city of her birth to the presumed…mehr

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The people in these eight stories all travel across the divide between the familiar and the foreign. For some it is a geographical journey, for others it's psychological. In most it's both. In this arresting collection, a survivor of the Chinese Cultural Revolution arrives forty years later at a U.S. university, where his ability to teach in English is tested. A small town's butterfly sanctuary conjures for an old woman disturbing memories of the Mayan ruins at Tikal and the civil war in Guatemala. A German bride makes the crossing from the smoke-stained city of her birth to the presumed paradise of 1913 Honolulu. A young family from the green farmland of the Midwest becomes lost in the arid mountains of New Mexico. A child raised in the shadow of Buchenwald ends up as a soldier in the jungles of Vietnam. These and other stories evoke a keen empathy with characters caught in confounding circumstances.
Autorenporträt
Kate Kasten is the author of four novels: Better Days, The Deconversion of Kit Lamb, Ten Small Beds, and Too Happy as well as a book of fairy tales for adults: Wildwood: Fairy Tales and Fables Re-imagined. Her short fiction has been published in Glimmer Train, American Literary Review, and Northwest Review. She has also co-authored, with Sandra de Helen, The Clue in the Old Birdbath, a musical satire of the Nancy Drew mystery genre, which has been produced by theatre companies in Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, and Portland. Her humorous monologues can be watched on her YouTube channel, boomeronachair. Kasten lives and writes in Iowa City, Iowa.