Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories (American Readers Series Book 21)

Jewelry Box is a collection of intimate histories, concentrated renderings of getting older, leaving, remembering. Here, “history" is twinned with “story," where microcosms of daily life, drenched in the past, blossom from objects: a tube of mascara, a cat's tail, mushroom paté. This collection explores nuances of sexuality, motherhood, and what it means to know life and tell a story. The sixty-eight short works in this collection (some only a paragraph, others a few pages) straddle memoir and fiction, exploring the nuances of sexuality, motherhood, love, and ambition. Like Lydia Davis, Aurelie Sheehan's stories are potent miniatures that blossom out from seemingly insignificant encounters and objects. Jewelry Box is a collection of intimate renderings of the life that surrounds us, just under the surface. Aurelie Sheehan is author of two novels, History Lesson for Girls and The Anxiety of Everyday Objects , and the story collection Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant . She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Jewelry Box is a collection of intimate histories, concentrated renderings of getting older, leaving, remembering. Here, “history” is twinned with “story,” where microcosms of daily life, drenched in the past, blossom from objects: a tube of mascara, a cat’s tail, mushroom paté. This collection explores nuances of sexuality, motherhood, and what it means to know life and tell a story. Jewelry Box is a collection of intimate histories, concentrated renderings of getting older, leaving, remembering. Here, history is twinned with story, where microcosms of daily life, drenched in the past, blossom from objects: a tube of mascara, a cat s tail, mushroom pate. This collection explores nuances of sexuality, motherhood, and what it means to know life and tell a story." Straddling memoir and fiction, these sixty-eight short works explore the nuances of sexuality, motherhood, love, ambition, and personal history.