Originally published in 2009 in hardcover in the United States by Southern Methodist University Press.
Includes reader's guide and questions and topics for discussion (p. [195]-207).
"Some of the stories in this collection appeared first in slightly different form in the following publications: 'Another Way to Make Cleopatra Cry' as 'An Everyday,' in Alaska Quarterly Review; 'Copper Leaves Waving,' in The New Orleans Review; 'Glass Box' as 'Glass Box, 1956,' in Alaska Quarterly Review; 'Cantogallo' as 'Izabel Tiago,' in Passages North; and 'Smoke' in Hayden's Ferry Review"--T.p. verso.
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Mrs. Somebody Somebody - Blue tango - Glass box - Gumbo limbo - Smoke - Another way to make Cleopatra cry - Frankie floats - Copper leaves waving - Cantogallo - Luck be a lady. In the troubled mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, a young millworker dreams of marrying rich and becoming "Mrs. Somebody Somebody"; an undercover union organizer's privileged past shapes her cause; a Korean War veteran returns to the wife he never really got to know--and the couple's overindulged children grow up to act out against their parents; and, a town resident reflects on a long-lost love and the treasure he keeps close to his heart.