Where the Body Ends

by Rene LeBlance, Erin McKnight (Editor)

Overview

What do we reach for? Why grasp at what will harm us? In the stories of Where the Body Ends, damage is palpated by people diseased and deficient. Attempting to connect, René LeBlanc’s characters seek salvation and redemption yet find at the end of their reach the same inadequacy that defines their physical and emotional selves. But they try. And this pursuit proves worthwhile, for despite grievous presentations of loss and betrayal and illness, this collection approaches the reader with an honest heart and an open hand. Unsentimental living—for those forced to sell their plasma or lock themselves away at night as protection from their disabled children—happens where the body ends and the world begins.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148868385
Publisher:	Queen's Ferry Press
Publication date:	11/04/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	220
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

René LeBlanc has published stories in Louisiana Literature, The Green Mountains Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Timber Creek Review, Gulfstream, and poetry in Poem and the Concho River Review. René received her MFA in Creative Writing, Specialization Fiction, from Texas State University, where she teaches in the English department and is a Student Learning Development Specialist in the Student Learning Assistance Center (SLAC). She lives in New Braunfels, Texas, with her husband, son, and daughter.