Kate Walbert
Author
Pub. Date
℗♭2015.
Description
"In Sunken Cathedral, Kate Walbert tells the stories of four women living in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, more or less now. Two, Marie and Simone, friends for decades, are widows in their seventies, yet robust, engaged, appetiteful, even ready to find love again. They were immigrants, survivors of World War II in Europe, and now are living alone in the houses where they raised their children. Elizabeth is Marie's tenant, the mother of a 13 year...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"They were on a lark, three teenaged girls speeding across the greens on a "borrowed" golf cart, at night, drunk. The cart crashes and one of the girls lands violently in the rough, killed instantly. The driver, Jo, flees the hometown that has turned against her and enrolls at a prestigious boarding school. Her past weighs on her. She is responsible for the death of her best friend. She has tipped her parents' rocky marriage into demise. She is ready...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Kate Walbert returns with twelve deft, acutely funny, and often heartbreaking stories. Her characters question the definitions assigned to them as wives, mothers, and daughters. They seek their own way within isolated, and often isolating, circumstances and revel in everyday epiphanies and quick moments of clarity.