Tenney's Landing: Stories
by Catherine Tudish
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The lives and histories of the denizens of Tenney's Landing, a small Pennsylvania river town, intersect in ways both incidental and intimate as the townspeople learn that their capacity for hope and forgiveness is greater than they thought. In "Where the Devil Lost His Blanket," Elizabeth Tenney embarks on an unexpected journey to return the remains of her deceased neighbor to South America. In "Jordan's Stand," a gruff old farmer forms an unlikely friendship with a young widow. In "The show more Springhouse," a woman decides to leave her husband and return to Tenney's Landing, where she becomes the unofficial guardian of all manner of community secrets. Evocative, resonant, and exquisitely tender, these stories capture moments of change -- upheaval, renewal, and the quieter revolutions inspired by the small eventfulness of everyday life. Catherine Tudish's remarkable debut illuminates the shared human condition through the particulars of a small American town. show lessTags
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Review: Tenney’s Landing by Catherine Tudish.
Every once in a while I try a book of short stories but they disappoint me. Half the stories aren’t worth reading and some just make it. The story that fit three of my challenges one is, “The Dowry” where there is plenty of dancing, the second one a character living in a big house and the third was a letter in the title started with a “T”. Catherine Tudish stumbles with clarification in some of her stories in this book with a sense of longing for a deeper understanding of their own.
The author did amaze me of how she wrote every story in this book connected to the fictional Tenney’s Landing, a rural Pennsylvania region but with a different subject and plot. Catherine starts with show more a prologue at the beginning that describes the small town and some of the characters information. She wrote about memorable characters, fascinating situations with a fine writing style but I always like having some closure when it comes to the endings… show less
Every once in a while I try a book of short stories but they disappoint me. Half the stories aren’t worth reading and some just make it. The story that fit three of my challenges one is, “The Dowry” where there is plenty of dancing, the second one a character living in a big house and the third was a letter in the title started with a “T”. Catherine Tudish stumbles with clarification in some of her stories in this book with a sense of longing for a deeper understanding of their own.
The author did amaze me of how she wrote every story in this book connected to the fictional Tenney’s Landing, a rural Pennsylvania region but with a different subject and plot. Catherine starts with show more a prologue at the beginning that describes the small town and some of the characters information. She wrote about memorable characters, fascinating situations with a fine writing style but I always like having some closure when it comes to the endings… show less
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Catherine Tudish teaches at the Bread Loaf School of English and Dartmouth College.
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- People/Characters
- Lucius J. Tenney; Elizabeth Tenney; Aggie Moffat; Jasper Moffat; Eugene Eastman; Jordan Eastman (show all 10); Carrie MacKemson; Dan MacKemson; Mira Galisch Banashevsky; Gerald Dibbs
- Important places
- Tenney's Landing, Pennsylvania, USA
- Epigraph
- I know more of rivers than merely where ferries cross.
---Sung Tung-P'O,
"Seven Thousand Miles Away" 1094 - Dedication
- For my grandparents: Mary Black and Walter Carr;
Anna Gale and Paul Tudish - First words
- By April of 1765 the white fur trapper known as Big Hat could come and go as he pleased among the hills and waterways south of the demolished Fort Duquesne.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)She hadn't considered devotion---its power to catch and hold her before she slipped away.
- Blurbers
- Russo, Richard; Livesey, Margot
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- English
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