The sixteen stories in Margaret Luongo's If the Heart Is Lean etch sharp portraits of people in odd and sometimes surreal situations who thus have the opportunity to view their lives from a unique perspective. In "Chestnut Season," a young woman stalled in traffic sees her future self parked beside her; in "Boyfriends," the recently deceased protagonist endures eulogies by her ex-beaus and husbands; in "Mrs. Fargo," a young man faces a reckoning...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807133760
ISBN13:9780807133767
Release Date:September 2008
Publisher:LSU Press
Length:166 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"
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