Thompson, Jean

"Across three generations, the women of the Wise family hunt for contentment amid chaos of their own making. Evelyn set aside her career to marry, and motherhood never became her. Her daughter Laura discovers her husband Gabe expects too much of everyone in his life, especially his musician son. Grace has moved out from Laura and Gabe's house, but can't seem to live up to her potential--whatever that might be. As their story spans from World War II to the present, tethered in their small Midwestern town, they question: is a woman destined to repeat the mistakes of previous generations, or can she transcend the expectations of a place, and a time?"--OCLC.

Presents a collection of stories that put a modern twist on classic fairy tales, depicting characters ranging from lost children who try to find their way home to adults who confront their past misdeeds.

Eleven-year-old Molly's quiet life on the ranch with her widowered father is enlivened by the reappearance of a mysterious white stallion no one has ever been able to capture.

Collects twelve short stories about the lives of Americans by author Jean Thompson.

Contains fifteen short fiction stories by American author Jean Thompson in which she examines the bruised lives of men and women, and the resiliency of the human spirit.

An Indian boy, discovered in a wolf den by a Sioux medicine man, struggles to win acceptance into his adopted village.

After surviving a shooting at her high school, Linnea is packed off to live with her estranged father, Art, who doesn't quite understand how he has suddenly become responsible for raising a sullen adolescent girl. Art's neighbor, Christie, is a nurse distracted by an eccentric patient, Mrs. Foster, who has given Christie the reins to her Humanity Project, a bizarre and well-endowed charity fund. Just as mysteriously, no one seems to know where Conner, the Fosters' handyman, goes after work, but he has become the one person Linnea can confide in, perhaps because his own home life is a war zone: his father has suffered an injury and become addicted to painkillers. As these characters and many more hurtle toward their fates, the Humanity Project is born: Can you indeed pay someone to be good? At what price?.

Four episodes in which seven-year-old Michael copes with being the smallest and quietest in a large, clamorous family.

The members of the Erickson family come of age during the 1970s and 1980s, facing ordinary circumstances and trying to understand and achieve happiness.