Window: Stories and Essays
In much the way Alice Munro’s The View from Castle Rock mixes memoir with fiction in short takes, Nancy Jensen’s brave and beautiful book blends the self-examining voice of the personal essay with the scalpel-like precision of the modern short story. In this collection, she writes with courage and honesty about the complexities of contemporary life.
–Dianne Aprile, author of Making a Heart for God: A Week Inside a Catholic Monastery
Window is written with fire and ice by a courageous, brilliant writer. In both her stories and essays, Nancy Jensen is unsparing of herself. You won’t encounter a more uncompromising, dangerous account of prejudice than her “Notes of an Expatriate Daughter.” She can be wickedly funny, too, as in “Loving Galahad.”
–Richard Goodman, author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France and The Soul of Creative Writing
Essays with the lyricism of the best fiction, fiction with the inquisitiveness of the best essays. What an odd and wonderful hybrid Nancy Jensen has created in Window!
–Sydney Lea, author of Ghost Pain and Pursuit of a Wound
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