Damage Control: Stories. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Damage Control: Stories

Damage Control displays Amber Dermont's remarkable gift for portraying characters at crossroads. In “Lyndon,” a daughter visits presidential landmarks following the death of her father. In “Damage Control,” a young man works at an etiquette school while his girlfriend is indicted for embezzlement. A widow rents herself to elderly women and vacations with them as a “professional grandchild” in “Stella at the Winter Palace.” And in “The Language of Martyrs” a couple houses a mail order bride on behalf of the husband’s Russian mother.

Dermont's stories have previously been published in many literary magazines andhave also been featured in anthologies edited by Jane Smiley and Dave Eggers.Damage Control includes three previously unpublished pieces.

Amber Dermont received her MFA in fiction from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she held the prestigious Teaching-Writing Fellowship. Her short stories have appeared inAmerican Short Fiction, Crazyhorse, and Zoetrope: All-Story, among others. A graduate of Vassar College, she received her Ph.D. in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston. She is also the author ofThe Starboard Sea and is currently the Charles Loridans Chair and associate professor of English and creative writing at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia.