{"product_id":"helen-on-86th-street-and-other-stories-9780990516903","title":"Helen on 86th Street and Other Stories","description":"In Helen on 86th Street and Other Stories, girls grow into women and women become wise in portraits filled with biting humor and small but hard-earned victories. One girl makes a burnt offering of letters written to her wayward father, while another struggles to leave her dying father and face adult life. Women navigate the rocky shoals of adultery, illness, and infertility as they make their way in an unsteady world, where the heart is easily betrayed and loyalty is rarely a straightforward matter. Wendi Kaufman writes intimately of daughters, mothers, and lovers, of first loves and difficult truths. This is the long-awaited celebration of a wry, unblinking, and ultimately triumphant literary voice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaufman, Wendi:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Wendi Kaufman's fiction has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker, Fiction, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOther Voices\u003c\/em\u003e, and her stories have been anthologized in \u003cem\u003eScribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops, Elements of Literature, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFaultlines: Stories of Divorce\u003c\/em\u003e. She received a literary fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, was the winner of a Mary Roberts Rhinehart award for short fiction, and a Breadloaf Scholar in Fiction. From 2005-2009, Kaufman curated \"The Happy Booker,\" a prominent Washington, DC-based book blog, and was a frequent contributor to \u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWashingtonian\u003c\/em\u003e magazine. She graduated from George Mason University's MFA program in Creative Writing. Kaufman passed away in August 2014 after a prolonged battle with cancer. HELEN ON 86TH STREET AND OTHER STORIES (Stillhouse Press, 2014) was her first full- length collection.","brand":"Stillhouse Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461709238546,"sku":"9780990516903","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e39ceebd-07d4-414f-a4ac-030c73c3e017.jpg?v=1730076887","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/helen-on-86th-street-and-other-stories-9780990516903","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}