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Site Fidelity : Stories by Claire Boyles (2021, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393531821
ISBN-139780393531824
eBay Product ID (ePID)13050066540
Product Key Features
Book TitleSite Fidelity : Stories
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
TopicShort Stories (Single Author)
GenreFiction
AuthorClaire Boyles
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight11.2 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2021-004048
ReviewsThese are tenderly, insightfully-told tales of the hardscrabble lives of women in the present-day West, their families and how nature influences those ties., Set against a larger backdrop of energy debates, environmental disasters, and climate change, Boyles' stories are skillfully layered explorations of the politics and power plays within families, workplaces, and communities. Yet this collection's true mastery is in the rich and varied voices of the characters and in the small moments in which they reach for hope despite all that has crumbled around them. Deliberate and compelling. , [Site Fidelity] offers a sometimes bleak, often funny and warm look at family and sense of place in the West... [It explores] how people form an ethos of climate justice and care for their communities and natural resources. Boyles often brings a sense of humor to this work, showing how that ethos can manifest itself alongside all the quirks and inconsistencies of the human brain., Claire Boyles grabs the myth of the American West and reinvents it...Each of her harrowing stories introduces us to a remote landscape where the world has begun to crumble--sometimes literally--and yet the beauty of these places comes through, the hope of the people who live there comes through, due to Boyle's patient, observant eye. A compassionate, raw, unforgettable collection., Boyles's debut collection bristles with intelligence and determination... The stories of women dealing with messes men left behind evoke the characters' grit and hope as well as a sense of place, colored in by their concern for the environment. Fans of Annie Proulx and John Sayles will love this., Attuned to harsh, western beauty and full of unforgettable, resilient characters, Site Fidelity is a bold and deeply affecting debut collection. Boyles writes with grace, style, and tremendous compassion about family, activism, and the undeniable impact (for better or worse) human beings have on the planet., Site Fidelity is a masterful collection of stories set in the contemporary and complex West...Site fidelity, the tendency to return to a previously occupied location, seems rather fitting--because of its artistry and heft, this is a book I will return to again and again., [Boyles's] settings exist as characters in their own right, carefully detailed, possessed of complex backstories, and imbued with definite, sometimes dangerous, agency... Site Fidelity bursts with pleasures--not just its lush attention to place but its frequent moments of humor...as well as the delightful frissons of surprise that shiver off the pages each time we catch a reference to a previous story., Site Fidelity is an impressive collection of stories that exudes kindness and warmth for its characters and a clear passion for its central thesis... [A] solid debut collection by a writer to watch out for., [These] stories rise above on multiple levels: rich settings both integrated and essential, compelling characters navigating life's most formative crossroads, the tapestry effect of skillfully woven elements, and emotional intelligence in breathtaking spades... Boyles both respects the intelligence of her reader and brings heart and soul to the page., If we are to survive, even the next several decades, we need to feminize the myth of the American West...Claire Boyle's stories do just that, the tenacious, unsinkable women who inhabit them no longer content to sit back and let powerful men of industry make us all extinct. For anyone who loves and grieves the West, who isn't afraid to open their eyes and see her distress, these beautifully forged stories are as essential as water., In Site Fidelity, Claire Boyles explores her characters' love for the land with as much care as she evokes the knotty loyalties within families. These masterful short stories are wise, graceful, and as unsparingly beautiful as the sagebrush-scented landscapes they explore., Shot through with a nicely fatalist sense of humor, the stories press on the touchy question of just who best speaks for today's American West--those who, in the pioneer tradition, view it as a realm of independence and opportunity or those who feel called upon to preserve it., Tracing a landscape of deserts, mountains, sagebrush, and ranches, this story collection evokes life in the contemporary American West. Boyles's characters are steeped in a sense of connection to place and aware of the precariousness of their environment., Site Fidelity pulled me in from the first line and stayed with me long after I'd finished the last. This is one of those rare story collections that manages to be both unsparing and bighearted, brutal and beautiful, intimate and sweeping. Claire Boyles is a marvel, and this book is a triumph., [These 10 stories] offer an unrelenting clarity... This is the real stuff, adulthood at its most complex... Boyles weaves such knowledge deep into her narratives, choosing to end many of them in the middle, in the moment just before the trouble starts. It is a deft and daring choice.
SynopsisA 2022 Whiting Award Winner in Fiction Finalist for the 2022 Reading the West Debut Fiction Award Finalist for the 2022 Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection Set in the western sagebrush steppe, Site Fidelity is a vivid, intimate, and deeply human exploration of life on the shifting terrain of our changing planet., Firmly rooted in the modern American West, Site Fidelity follows women and families who feel the instinctual, inexplicable pull of a home they must work to protect from the effects of economic inequity and climate catastrophe. A seventy-four-year-old nun turns to eco-sabotage to stop a fracking project. A woman delivers her own baby in a Nevada ghost town. A young farmer hides her chicken flock from the government during a bird flu epidemic. An ornithologist returns home to care for her rancher father and gets caught up trying to protect a breeding group of endangered Gunnison sage grouse. In lean, lyrical prose, Claire Boyles evokes the bleakness and beauty of our threatened western landscapes. Spanning the decades from the 1970s to a plausible near future, this knockout debut introduces unforgettable characters who must confront the challenges of caregiving and loss alongside the very practical impacts of fracking, water rights law, and other agricultural policies. Site Fidelity is a vivid, intimate, and deeply human exploration of life on the shifting terrain of our changing planet., Set in the western sagebrush steppe, Site Fidelity is a vivid, intimate, and deeply human exploration of life on the shifting terrain of our changing planet.
LC Classification NumberPS3602.O9736S58 2021
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