Squandering the Blue: Stories

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Fawcett Columbine, 1990 - Fiction - 241 pages
This remarkable twelve-story cycle chronicles the lives of several Los Angeles women. There are Diana Barrington, single mother and poet, and her best friend Carlotta McKay, who venture into the ruined tropic Southern California. Here they meet the men of their nightmares in crash and burn weekends they will call the best times of their lives. Later, Diana and Carlotta will travel through the desert to close down a nuclear power plant in Nevada, driving through their own personal apocalypse. There is Jessica Moore, an abused wife dreaming of escape to San Fernando Valley, away from her husband and habits and Beverly Hills, with its obscene borders of Bougainvillea and orchids. And there is Maggie Decker, who takes her insolent teenage daughter on a trip to Eastern Europe, only to find the distance between them greater than the ocean they've crossed.

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Kate Braverman was born on Febraury 5, 1949 in Philadelphia. She has a BA in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in English from Sonoma State University. She was a member of the Venice Poetry Workshop, Professor of Creative Writing at California State University, Los Angeles, staff faculty of the UCLA Writer's Program. She also taught privately a workshop which included Janet Fitch, Cristina Garcia and Donald Rawley. Her novels include: Lithium for Medea, Palm Latitudes, Wonders of the West and the Incantation of Frida K. She passed away in Santa Fe, New Mexico.on October 13, 2019 at the age of 70.

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