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The stories in The Disobedience of Water explore the boundary conditions between self and others. Social realities - racial and ethnic tensions, sexual harassment and abuse - provide the backdrop for struggles that ultimately take place in the heart. While Naslund's characters accept that their inner-tides cannot be brought into obedience, sometimes, in the act of recognizing the force of their own hopes, needs, and fears, they learn to navigate the waters.
These are, in the broadest sense of the word, love stories: of finding, discovering, and admitting love and forgiveness, whether a daughter's love for her father in the face of perceived betrayal, or a wife's love of her friend and her husband in the half-light of infidelity.
In the long title story, which takes the form of a painfully revealing letter to an almost-lover, the narrator winds through swirling eddies of memory and language to deliver her present and past lives, and the loves that have informed them.
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The Disobedience of Water: Stories and Novellas
October 1, 2000, Harper Perennial
Paperback
in English
0688178456 9780688178451
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The disobedience of water: stories and novellas
1999, D.R. Godine
in English
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1567920713 9781567920710
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