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100 1  Cortese, Katie,|eauthor. 
240 10 Short stories.|kSelections 
245 10 Make way for her :|band other stories /|cKatie Cortese. 
264  1 Lexington, Kentucky :|bUniversity Press of Kentucky,
       |c[2018] 
300    188 pages ;|c24 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  University Press of Kentucky New Poetry And Prose Series 
505 00 |tSweetness on the tongue --|tDesire comes closer --
       |tFirebug --|tWelcome to snow --|tStraight and narrow --
       |tBitter, sweet, salt --|tThe bounce back --|tLighter, 
       bluer, clearer, colder --|tMake way for her --|tSilent 
       blooms of sudden heat. 
520    A girl afflicted with pyrokinesis tries to control her 
       fire-starting long enough to go to a dance with a boy she 
       likes. A woman trapped in a stalled marriage is excited by
       an alluring ex-con who enrolls in her YMCA cooking class. 
       A teen accompanies her mother, a prestigious poet, to a 
       writing conference where she navigates a misguided 
       attraction to a married writer -- who is, in turn, 
       attracted to her mother -- leaving her "inventing 
       punishments for writers who believe in clichés as tired as
       broken hearts."In this affecting collection, Katie Cortese
       explores the many faces of love and desire. Featuring 
       female narrators that range in age from five to forty, the
       narratives in Make Way for Her speak to the many 
       challenges and often bittersweet rewards of offering, 
       receiving, and returning love as imperfect human beings. 
       The stories are united by the theme of desperate love, 
       whether it's a daughter's love for a parent, a sister's 
       for a sibling, or a romantic love that is sometimes 
       returned and sometimes unrequited. Cortese's complex and 
       multilayered stories play with the reader's own desires 
       and anticipations as her characters stubbornly resist the 
       expected. The intrepid girls and women in this book are, 
       above all, explorers. They drive classic cars from Maine 
       to Phoenix, board airplanes for the first time, and hike 
       dense forests in search of adventure; but what they often 
       find is that the most treacherous landscapes lie within. 
       As a result, Make Way for Her explores a world of women 
       who crave knowledge and experience, not simply sex or 
       love. 
650  0 Women|vFiction. 
650  0 Marital conflict|vFiction. 
650  0 Mothers and daughters|vFiction. 
650  0 Man-woman relationships|vFiction. 
655  7 Short stories.|2lcgft 
830  0 University Press of Kentucky new poetry and prose series. 
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