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Tell the World You''re a Wildflower: Stories

English

By (author): Jennifer Horne

Tell the World Youre a Wildflower is a collection of loosely interwoven stories in the voices of southern women and girls of different ages and backgrounds. Beginning with the youngest characters and ending with the oldest, the stories encompass plastic surgery and white supremacists, family secrets and family trees, the United Daughters of the Confederacy and a young writer who describes her work in progress as the bastard love-child of William Faulkner and Alice Walker.

In Tell the World Youre a Wildflower, each character must decide what to tell, whether to tell it, and to whom to tell it. Each struggles with questions of identity and truth, trying to understand who she is and what holds true for her. Some tell their stories plainly, directly, others more obliquely, nesting one within another. Anchored in the tradition of southern storytelling, these women contend with loss, change, and growth while going to church, school, and prison, navigating love and sex, and worrying too much about what people might think.

Yet these women generally refuse to behave, and they wander in and out of each others stories just like people do in small towns across the South. Small town lives are always interconnected: your third-grade teacher is your new neighbors aunt and the boy you dated your senior year falls from political grace after being caught in a hot tub with your second cousin. Though they may have had little say in where they were planted, Hornes protagonists nevertheless do their best to bloom.

Rich, multifaceted, and unforgettable, Tell the World Youre a Wildflower is the work of a veteran explorer of the twentieth and twenty-first century South. Hornes quest to understand her culture through decades of reading and observing has now yielded these narratives that imaginatively and insightfully enter the hearts and minds of southern women. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 372g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Jul 2014
  • Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780817318451

About Jennifer Horne

Raised in Arkansas and a longtime resident of Alabama USA Jennifer Horne is a writer editor teacher and blogger who explores Southern identity and experience especially womens through prose poetry fiction and anthologies and in classrooms and workshops across the South. A recipient of fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the Seaside Institute in Florida she is the editor of Working the Dirt: An Anthology of Southern Poets and the author of a poetry collection Bottle Tree. With Wendy Reed she coedited the essay collections All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality and Circling Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality.

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