Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories

Straddling memoir and fiction, these sixty-eight short works explore the nuances of sexuality, motherhood, love, ambition, and personal history.


Author: Aurelie Sheehan
Publisher: BOA Editions
Published: 10/01/2013
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781938160240
ISBN10: 193816024X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
Aurelie Sheehan is the author of two novels, History Lesson for Girls (Viking Penguin, 2006) and The Anxiety of Everyday Objects (Penguin Books, 2004), as well as a short story collection, Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant (Dalkey Archive Press, 1994). Her work has been widely published in venues including Alaska Quarterly, Conjunctions, Epoch, Fairy Tale Review, Fence, New England Review, The New York Times, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review. She has received a Pushcart Prize, a Camargo Fellowship, the Jack Kerouac Literary Award, and an Artists Projects Award from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Sheehan teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she lives with her husband and daughter.