![]() ![]() In Wake in the Night, we are reminded why we must push beyond easy categories and find new ways of understanding the roles we play. ![]() By employing forms that break with convention in the same spirited ways her characters do, Laura Krughoff creates a world of stunning detail that examines just what people will do when expectations stifle truth. The six stories in this collection highlight the struggle to define one’s identity combined with the pressure to live up to expectations and social conventions. "Spanning the last century with narrators aged 10 to 100, these stories reveal women struggling to fit a definition of womanhood that cannot contain them. Laura Krughoff’s, Wake in the Night, delivers stories of women ranging in age from 10 to 100 and spread over a century of time. In the small towns of the Midwest, girls and women dream of finding voice and forcing the world to listen. They explore the complicated lives of women with a depth that a reader cant resist being moved by. Marriages occur in the 1930s for lack of other opportunities a young girl dances to Thriller for her friend's older brother a pastor remembers her childhood spent fantasizing that she is the prophet John the Baptist. The stories are solemn but powerful, bleak but invigorating. Six stories span a century of rural American women. "Laura Kroghoff's stories have the lyrical exuberance of a Grace Paley in their bones." Christopher Grimes, author of The Pornographers and Public Works: Short Fiction and a Novella ![]()
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