Stories from Yard

by Alecia McKenzie

Fear and bitterness pollute the ground from which the characters of these stories, mostly young and female, struggle to grow. With so many 'bad seeds', mostly male, taking root around them, with sexual violence, neglectful and brutal fathers, jealousy, lies and prejudice obscuring their light, their blossoming is always under threat. But in these diverse, subtly constructed stories, there is often a glimmer of hope: in a girl's tentative resistance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1900715627
• ISBN13: 9781900715621
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"