We Are the Stories We Tell

Table Of Contents

Acknowledgments // xi

Introduction // 5

Mary McCarthy
THE BLACKGUARD
(1946) // 18

Eudora Welty
NO PLACE FOR YOU, MY LOVE
(1951) // 18

Flannery O’Connor
A VIEW OF THE WOODS
(1957) // 38

Grace Paley
AN INTEREST IN LIFE
(1959 // 61

Paule Marshall
BROOKLYN
(1961) // 77

Joyce Carol Oates
WHERE ARE YOU GOING, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?
(1966) // 98

Toni Cade Barmbara
MY MAN BOVANNE
(1971) // 116

Leslie Marmon Silko
YELLOW WOMAN
(1974) // 123

Margaret Atwood
GIVING BIRTH
(1977) // 134

Anne Tyler
HOLDING THINGS TOGETHER
(1977) // 150

Alice Munro
ROTAL BEATINGS
(1977) // 164

Jayne Anne Phillips
SOUVENIR
(1979) // 188

Maxine Hong Kingston
ON DISCOVERY
(1980) // 204

Alice Walker
THE ABORTION
(1980) // 207

Bobbie Ann Mason
SHILOH
(1982) // 218

Tama Janowitz
THE SLAVES IN NEW YORK
(1984) // 234

Susan Minot
LUST
(1984) // 244

Sandra Cisneros
HARIS, A RICE SANDWICH, HIPS
(1984) // 255

Ann Beattie
JANUS
(1985) // 264

Ursula K. Le Guin
SHE UNNAMES THEM
(1985) // 270

Francine Prose
OTHER LIVES
(1985) // 274

Louise Erdrich
FLEUR
(1986) // 289

Mary Gordon
THE DANCING PARTY
(1986) // 304

Becky Birtha
IN THE LIFE
(1987) // 310

The Authors // 323

The Editor // 334