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The Night My Small Red Beans Grew Legs and Ran Away
Susan Richardson
其他書名
And, the Mourner and Other Women
出版Trafford Publishing, 2007
ISBN14251127739781425112776
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Wqr6JgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The sixteen stories in The Night My Small Red Beans Grew Legs and Ran Away explore obsession in various mainfestations. In the title story, beans soaking for lasagna invade and destroy a housewife's home, adding to her multipel chores, while her husnand sleeps through it all. "stopover in Truth or Consequences" depicts characters so obsesse with money (and its related counting) that they ruin their relationships over it. Ironically, in "No Love in a Hat," a man is killed by a truck while trying to prevent hats, his fetish, from being run over on the freeway. In "Big Bad Wolf," a mother prefers, as adults often do, to disbelieve her child's apparent obsession, an insistence on a wolf residing in the bedroom, to the peril of both adult and child. Overall, Beans emphasizes the danger inherent in extremes. The Mourner and Other Women, eighteen stories, depicts women in their various occupations: as students, soliders, mothers, spurned girlfriends, brides, wives, patients, mourners, peacemakers. The book, divided into three sections, explores women in love, women in military situations, and women out in the world. In "The Mourner," the protagonist's sister can start mourning her yung son only through proximity to her sister's baby. Art, represented by the soothing repetition of crocheting a blanket in "The Afghan," allows that story's protagonist to start putting a failed relationship into perspective. Similarly, in "Arkansas Summer," when a woman finds she has been sharing her husband with a second family, past clues to both his deception and his motivation rise to the surface. In "Road to Damascus," Ruth's frequent disappearances to find God disrupt both job and marriage and finally imperil her ver survival. The Mourner explores how women deal with loss and success, with sacrifice and reward.