The Fifth Woman
Description
Years after Caspers's unnamed narrator loses her first lover in a tragic accident, she finds herself wondering, "What did she want from me? What are the things that matter?" In vivid, richly detailed vignettes, the book tracks the cyclical nature of grief and remembrance across a life fractured by loss. At times dryly comical, at other times radiantly surreal, The Fifth Woman is a testament to the resurrecting power of memory and enduring love.
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Persons
Nona Caspers is the author of Heavier Than Air, which was honored with the AWP Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction from and listed as a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Her work has been supported with a NEA Fellowship, an Iowa Review Fiction Award, a LAMBDA nomination, and the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Grant and Award, among other honors. Individual stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Epoch, Black Warrior Review and Glimmer Train. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University and lives in San Francisco.
Content
Ants
Two Clean Things
The Dog
The Phone Call
The Gun
The Closet
Reception
The Cat
Weather
A Hat Shaped Like a Dog That Looked Like a Cat
Thinking
The Horse
The Fifth Woman
Pair of Sunfish
Sharks
Frontiers
Help
On the Roof
The Crack
The Ravine
Dandelions
Coast of Peru
