Six Months In The Midwest

In the dark heart of a Minneapolis winter, a young boy struggles to understand his mother's failing health as she teaches him Polish, the language of her dead mother. From a distance, a frustrated English professor dines with her mentally ill ex-husband in a park on which a mansion once stood. A single mother struggles to let go as her teenage son seeks his independence. A drag queen and his partner battle a snow storm while debating the future of their relationship. A retired garbage collector finds solace in the ballet, and the owner of a liquor store tries to find companionship on the streets and in the bars of Minneapolis. Equal parts bitterness and beauty, the sixteen stories in this collection are plotted snapshots of a city in its most unforgiving season--

• | Author: Darci Schummer
• | Publisher: Unsolicited Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 23, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 154 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0692242007
• | ISBN-13: 9780692242001