University of Wisconsin Press

Nick Lantz explores the transformative power of tragic and miraculous experiences, through these poems that illuminate near misses of tragedy and transcendence. His gaze is both roving and...

The characters--young and old, queer and straight, contemporary and historical--who inhabit Lynn C. Miller's stories often find themselves in defining moments and crisis situations. As they search...

In this lively novel, artist Nora grapples with heartbreak, aging, and creativity in off-season Cape Cod. Readers follow her as she meets a unique cast of characters and must decide what she wants...

Suzette Mullen had been raised to play it safe--and she hated causing others pain. With college and law degrees, a kind and successful husband, two thriving adult sons, and an ocean-view vacation...

Pat Faunce yearns for more than his carefree New York life and his open relationship with Stu, an airline pilot. Above all, he wants to be a father. He persuades a reluctant Stu to move to Cape Cod,...

Author: Alex PickettPublisher: University of Wisconsin PressPublication Date: Apr 20, 2021Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0299331644ISBN-13: 9780299331641

Ronya Othmann's debut novel narrates the coming of age of Leyla, a Yazidi-Kurdish-German girl. She spends the school year in her mother's home country of Germany but travels every summer to her...

Four friends--black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born--offer a radical vision for book clubs as sites of self-discovery and communal healing. The Toni Morrison Book Club...

While trying to drum up additional work, down-on-his-luck handyman Don Lank spies an imitation Tiffany lamp shining in the front window of a house. He offers the elderly widow who answers the door...

Three plays about women and the Trojan War, in fresh translations for the stage, the classroom, or the general reader. The publication of Trojan Women, Helen, and Hecuba in one volume also invites...

When Tave wakes up alone in the hospital, she barely remembers the car wreck. Far from home, dazed, and despondent, she struggles to face the challenges of her new paralysis--all while worrying about...

Orville, Illinois, is bucolic, charming, and almost Norman Rockwellesque--if you're white. But like many midwestern cities in the 1960s, it is a "sundown" town--a place where Black Americans are...

Author: Mary MaillardPublisher: University of Wisconsin PressPublication Date: Feb 18, 2020Number of Pages: 248 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0299311848ISBN-13: 9780299311841

In October 2020, B.J. Hollars answered a call from his father-in-law while teaching a class. "When will you be home?" Steve asked. "I have news." So began the Hollars family's year of plenty--a year...

Remlinger's book engagingly examines the history of the "Yooper" dialect of American English in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, focusing on how and why such regional dialects and identities emerge...