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The wandering nature of us girls
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- Summary
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In this collection of small stories, Frankie McMillan balances transgression and wit, showing a cast of unmoored characters with her signature warmth and compassion.
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- Creator
- Frankie McMillan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Christchurch, New Zealand : Canterbury University Press, 2022
- ©2022
- Physical Details
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- 127 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781988503332, 1988503337
- OCLC
- on1336986953
- Short stories.
- The wandering nature of us girls. Magdalene, the sister we could not fathom -- The wandering nature of us girls -- Swimming with Cliff -- The winter swimming of my grandmother -- Steadfast's breath -- Stories told on the swings -- Chase -- Romance in the lower and upper atmosphere -- When old fiddlers fall on their stools -- Explaining the Sputnik dog to my child -- Laugh, Doreen. Laugh Doreen -- Springing along in trick shoes -- Wooden shoes -- Walk, run -- The ring master's boys -- Milk-bottle legs of the high-wire woman -- Jennie Worgan, the midge's housewife -- Johnny Owl -- Let us consider the blind -- What baby wants -- The boy who grew antlers -- The undetectable mystery of my husband's illness. Hawk-eyed girls -- Wishbone -- Armpits -- The uprising of my aunt -- We, the school dental nurses, 1960 -- The elephant in the room -- Unripe fruit -- The girl from the laundromat -- Yah, yah, if the wind changes, your face will stick -- The movie of your life -- Hunting my father's voice, Country Down -- The laughing epidemic -- Cuba and other stand-offs -- Centaur Man -- Centaur Woman -- Horse love -- Seeing Stan -- Madame Yeti. Our uncles, us girls -- What extremely muscular horses can teach us about climate change -- Branching out -- Not the target -- Displaced things -- Some things you fell -- Coming towards her, a thoroughly decent man of Bumble -- The existential crab colony of Kyushu Bay -- Woman in a barrel. Seven starts to the tumbling of Annie Edson -- A litany of the washing machines in my life -- Accounts of girls raised by swans -- Language -- Alan Bennett striding over the shore -- The knocker-upper -- The fame of Mr Whippy and the crayfish -- How we scare ourselves -- Crabs -- When Kaiwhakaruaki comes