Nora Jane

By Ellen Gilchrist

Subjects: Women, Eccentric families, Men cancer patients, Nora Jane Harwood (Fictitious character), American Short stories, Mothers, Fiction, Happiness, Fiction, short stories (single author), Friendship

Description: Ellen Gilchrist's beloved Nora Jane stories, gathered together for the first time in a vibrant, hilarious, and deeply moving collection. Gilchrist fans have long enjoyed their glimpses of smart, willful Nora Jane Harwood in six previous collections. Here now are the collected Nora Jane stories--including a new novella--following her from scrappy adolescence in New Orleans through a delightfully eccentric life as wife, mother, and independent spirit in Berkeley, California.