Country Of Herself by Karen Lee Osborne

Fourteen short stories by representative women authors give a flavor of life in Chicago from a female perspective. Chicago's best contemporary female writers are represented.

CONTENTS: The Island of the Rooster, by Angela R. Jackson.--The Foreigner in the Blood, by Mary Gray Hughes.--Angels, by Patricia Lear.--The Stockholm Syndrome, by Maxine Chernoff.--I Miss Saturday Night, by Eleanore Devine.--Vibrations Which Rumble Like Thunder, by Anne Brashler.--A Slight Movement of Hands, by Joyce Goldenstern.--Mimosa, by Carol Anshaw.--In Kerry's Cab, by Diane Williams.--Service, by June Rachuy Brindel.--The Man Who Loved Life, by Sara Paretsky.--My Mother's War, by S. I. Wisenberg.--To Those Who Come Behind Me, by Sandra Jackson-Opoku.--The Country of Herself, by Sharon Solwitz.