Stories deal with lovers' quarrels, maturing children, struggling loners, a widow's unique mourning, and a teenager visiting an elderly aunt

Product Description: Book by Hemley, Robin

Product Description: For centuries writers have used participatory experience as a lens through which to better see the world at large and as a means of exploring the self. Considering various types of participatory writing as different strains of one style―immersion writing―Robin Hemley offers new perspectives and practical advice for writers of this nonfiction genre...read more

Product Description: The riveting story of a modern Piltdown hoax—which may not have been a hoax at allIn 1971, a band of twenty-six “Stone Age” rain-forest dwellers was discovered living in total isolation by Manuel Elizalde, a Philippine government minister with a dubious background...read more

A story set in South Bend, Indiana, where the closing of the Studebaker plant has shaped the course of history for twenty-five years, insightfully depicts the typical quirks of middle American family life

Product Description: The evidence at hand: an autobiography - complete with their mother's edits - written by his brilliant and disturbingly religious sister; a story featuring actual childhood events, but published as fiction; perjured court documents hidden in a drawer for decades...read more

Product Description: Reply All, the third collection of award-winning and widely anthologized short stories by Robin Hemley, takes a humorous, edgy, and frank look at the human art of deception and self-deception. A father accepts, without question, the many duplicate saint relics that appear in front of his cave everyday; a translator tricks Magellan by falsely translating a local chief’s words of welcome; an apple salesman a long way from home thinks he’s fallen in love; a search committee believes in its own nobility by hiring a minority writer; a cheating couple broadcast their affair to an entire listserv; a talk show host interviews the dead and hopes to learn their secrets...read more

Shows how to use personal and family experiences to develop characters, plots, settings, and conversations