Herself in Love and Other Stories Author:Marianne Wiggins Take a ride on Marianne Wiggin's roller coaster. In these thirteen stories, she hits the heights of new, surprising love and the lows of loneliness and breaking up. Each story is so different from the others, so new in its insights and images, it is hard to believe one person wrote them all. — There is Fran Koslow. Late at night she calls up ... more »Kafkas she finds in phone books in the hopes of marrying one and becoming Fran Kafka.
There is Dolores. When she goes for a ride with Carl and Marl in their old Dodge, she certainly doesn't expect them to be so wise.
There is Redcar, who steps off a commuter train at Grand Central Station, smells train, and sets off across America.
There are many other characters, people leading ordinary lives, yet searching for that one lost experience, that one thing that will make life complete.« less