{"product_id":"jewelry-box","title":"Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eJewelry Box\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a collection of intimate histories, concentrated and impressionistic renderings of the life that surrounds us, just under the surface. Grand scale history reveals one reality, but in Sheehan’s book, microcosms are also drenched in the past—in histories. Here stories blossom out from objects and concepts, some of them mundane at first glance: a tube of mascara, a cat’s tail, mushroom paté. Straddling memoir and fiction, the collection’s fifty-eight short works (some as brief as a paragraph, others concentrated in a few pages) explore the nuances of sexuality, motherhood, love, and ambition. As a whole, this book comprises a portrait of a writer reasserting what it means to know a life and tell a story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000;\"\u003eExcerpt from\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eJewelry Box\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“Small Buddha”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000;\"\u003eShe is the girl next door. She is soft and sly and brilliant and exuberant and demure. She and I eat oysters together, and drink a little beer. We live on different sides of the railroad tracks. But it is Mardi Gras, and we\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003ere both wearing beads around our necks tonight, and she gives me this small red Buddha.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eJewelry Box\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e“Aurelie Sheehan’s absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.”\u003cstrong\u003e —Frederic Tuten\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e“Aurelie Sheehan writes, with porcelain precision, stories tuned like poems that behave like memoir. \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eJewelry Box\u003c\/i\u003e traces the spider-webbing tensions between life\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es sweetness and the need for strife.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Lucy Corin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e“Aurelie Sheehan’s sterling collection, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eJewelry Box\u003c\/i\u003e, is mint. These splinters of story, shaved from massive glaciers of narrative, fracture like ice shards calving from a flow, like crimped reeding sliced from a ducat. These silver slivers work their way under the skin to worry there—lodged, seated, touched. Tangible, gingerly gingered treasures, each one. And each one, edged and embossed, authentic coin of the submerged and still untarnished realm.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Michael Martone\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ePraise for Sheehan\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es Past Works\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000;\"\u003e “Subtle and moving.”\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000;\"\u003e “Sheehan’s writing is often bulls-eye perfect.”\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“Aurelie Sheehan renders a powerful female \u003cbr\u003esexuality; the prose rushes forward, full of heat and instinct…Sheehan should be read and re-read.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eNewsday\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Each paragraph is cinematic in its intensity...”\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000;\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000;\"\u003eAurelie Sheehan is the author of two novels, \u003cem\u003eHistory Lesson for Girls\u003c\/em\u003e (Viking Penguin, 2006) and \u003cem\u003eThe Anxiety of Everyday Objects\u003c\/em\u003e (Penguin Books, 2004), as well as a short story collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000;\"\u003eJack Kerouac Is Pregnant\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e (Dalkey Archive Press, 2001). Her work has been widely published in such venues as \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/em\u003e. She has received a Pushcart Prize, a Camargo Fellowship, and the Jack Kerouac Literary Award, among others. Sheehan teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arizona in Tucson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2013\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8420272773,"sku":"9781938160240","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/jewelrybox_bookstore.jpeg?v=1527683284","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/jewelry-box","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}