Hearts as Big as Fists & Other Stories - Tosteson, Heather
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A mother tries to make sense of the horrifying reality that all three of her sons may die of AIDS. A young woman whose manic depressive mother has died and whose father has remarried welcomes her own unborn child and recognizes the complicated source of her own maternity. A young woman faces the loss of her husband to kidney disease after he has donated a kidney to her own brother. A family and a surgeon respond to the challenges of heart surgery on a young child. A nineteen-year-old girl comes of age dealing with a rare cancer. A menopausal scientist seeks a kundalini experience that never…mehr

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A mother tries to make sense of the horrifying reality that all three of her sons may die of AIDS. A young woman whose manic depressive mother has died and whose father has remarried welcomes her own unborn child and recognizes the complicated source of her own maternity. A young woman faces the loss of her husband to kidney disease after he has donated a kidney to her own brother. A family and a surgeon respond to the challenges of heart surgery on a young child. A nineteen-year-old girl comes of age dealing with a rare cancer. A menopausal scientist seeks a kundalini experience that never comes. A woman, after a visionary experience, believes she has the power to heal. The spirits¿and voices¿of the characters in these twelve stories are fierce, raging, funny, loving and surprisingly generous as they struggle to discover what can illumine and sustain them and those they love.
Autorenporträt
Heather Tosteson is the author of seven books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, most recently the novel The Philosophical Transactions of Maria van Leeuwenhoek, Antoni's Dochter (1668-1696) and poetry collection Source Notes: Seventh Decade. She has an MFA (UNC-Greensboro) and PhD in English and Creative Writing (Ohio University). Her work in health communications focused on cross-disciplinary communication, racism, social trust, and how belief systems develop and change. Most recently, she and Charles Brockett co-authored Sharing the Burden of Repair: Reentry After Mass Incarceration, an extensive six-year Wising Up Listening Project. She has co-edited all nineteen Wising Up Anthologies.