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Miss Kansas City (Michigan Literary Fiction Awards)
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $24.00
Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press
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Description
Friendless and reclusive, Alex Blue commutes two hours each way to a job that serves mainly as a place to bide time, until one day she meets the wealthy, worldly—and married—owner of a high-concept Bay Area lifestyle company. Meanwhile, the melancholy and closeted Morton Levi, yearning for a loving partner but stung by prior experience, lives a secret life outside the software information company he manages with a steady, efficient hand—the same company where Alex works.
As ominous rumors of mergers and layoffs swirl, and Alex and Mort are pushed to the emotional brink by the vagaries of love, they find themselves forging an unexpected alliance. Miss Kansas City is a moving exploration of the notion of possibility, and of a seasoned hope that can emerge on the other side of loneliness and loss.
Joan Frank is the author of the story collection Boys Keep Being Born, which was both a Bay Area Book Reviewers’ Award and Paterson Fiction Award finalist. Her stories appear in many journals and anthologies, including The Antioch Review,The Iowa Review, and Salmagundi. She is a MacDowell Colony and VCCA Fellow, Pushcart Prize nominee, recipient of a Barbara Deming Grant, and winner of the Iowa Fiction Award and Emrys Fiction Award. She lives in Northern California. Miss Kansas City is her first novel.
Reviews
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-06-21
Summary: "A Gem"
Now that I've finally discovered Joan Frank, maybe I can stop wishing Henry James was still alive and writing. Here is a writer who employs the power of detail and gesture, who understands that in a character-driven novel, setting can be a character, too.
I started with this book because it is the only one available on Kindle--it's pricey, too, but don't let that stop you. There is so much to admire about this book, including the way the title's meaning is reavealed. Reading the book was a lesson in looking--at first glance it is a story of misplaced love (Alex, a lovely but aimless young woman, falls for Gray, a married father and creator of an upscale housewares empire; Mort, serious and sensitive, manager at an '80s startup company called Inifinite Information, who gets involved with the dazzling Skip). But Frank's observations penetrate the surface of these common-enough dramas with exquisite clarity and gorgeously measured prose. She gave me a renewed sense of the extraordinary beauty of Marin and Sonoma counties--my own backyard. Even the ending was brilliantly faceted--a cut stone Frank lets us examine again and again in the ever-changing light.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2006-11-09
Summary: "Fine, Fine, Fine"
Joan Frank's first novel, Miss Kansas City (a wonderfully ironic title), is a masterpiece. I read her award-winning short story collection, Boys Keep Being Born, and loved her writing so much that I've been waiting for another book from her. Now, with this one, I am even more awed at her range. Along with the drama of love and loss and resilience (that quality - that almost infinite adaptability - which, uniquely, makes us human), she leaves us with a wealth of insight and of wisdom. She's wonderfully good at delineating what she calls the "unconscious male" (in spite of her love for those pesky trouble-makers). Yet she allows us into the inner spaces of both her male and female characters, each caught up in love (or obsession) and yearning. She opens us up to the gulf of loneliness within each isolated sex. She keeps us on our toes, surprises us. Then, reaching beyond the personal, she gives us wholly believable scenes of California's takeoff into its heady new computerized world, along with, already, intimations of its collapse. She's the true chronicler of our twentieth-century nation-state and of the human soul.