The Tiger in the Grass: Stories and Other Inventions

In her first collection of stories and pieces, Harriet Doerr explores the magical power of memory and brings us a wealth of unforgettable characters: eccentric eighty-two-year-old Great-Aunt Alice, who, empowered by a lucid memory, lived out her final, physically debilitated years with grace; Edie, who arrives in California from England to bring sanity and peace to a house with five half-orphaned children and a despairing widower; Paco, eight years old, and Gloria, eleven, children caught between the longing and pleasures of childhood and the harsh mature realities of their meager circumstances in a Mexican village. These and other characters are captured in the web of life with a startling sensitivity that will touch the reader at every turn.

"Strikingly pure and radiant."--The New York Times Book Review

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 10/01/1996
ISBN: 9780140251487
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.75h x 5.10w x 0.61d

Review Citations: New York Times 10/20/1996 pg. 36
Publishers Weekly 09/09/1996