| The stories in The Legends Daughter inhabit present-day Idaho where fires, streams, and landscapes ask--even demand--that individuals reconsider and reorient their lives. An award-winning playwright, David Kranes infuses this collection with swift dialogue and complicated characters, including a kayaking actor, a rebellious high school teacher, and a lipstick-loving fly fisherman.The Legends Daughter is a story collection of real people struggling with identity, with love, with time, rooted in the rugged and indifferent beauty of Idaho where each character finds his or her mirror in water, in stone, in place. David Kranes shows how our tenacious love of life can transform any situation, large or small, into alchemy. We are all living inside these raw and well-drawn pages.--Terry Tempest Williams, author of When Women Were BirdsThese Idaho stories are vintage David Kranes. He, more than any other writer, is the one whose work spurs me to reconsider what fiction can do. He uses language like a knife and the worlds in his stories come off the page at me. We havent seen this Idaho before. Im thrilled to have these stories, every one of them provocative, riveting, and robust.--Ron Carlson, author of The Signal",In these times of disconnection, David Kranes lassoes us with the delicate tether of his multiple gifts and brings us home . . . a storyteller and an elegant craftsman.--Mary Sojourner",David Kranes has given us ten stories, entirely various, often splendid, sometimes hilarious or heartbreaking.",--William Kittredge, author of The Willow Field |
