Katherine Vaz

• Jun-1994
• / General Fiction
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The exotic Clara, born deaf on a Portuguese island steeped in legend and mystery, relocates to northern California, where her profound sense of longing drives her to create her own language to express her sensual vitality. Reprint....

• Oct-1997
• / General Fiction
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• Winner of the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize This collection is filled with narrative and character grounded in the meaning and value the earth gives to human existence. In one story, a woman sleeps with the village priest, trying to gain back...

• Oct-2008
• / General Fiction
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The stories in this prize-winning collection evoke a complete world, one so richly imagined and finely realized that the stories themselves are not so much read as experienced. The world of these stories is Portuguese-American, redolent of incense an...

• May-2016
• / Literary
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Surreal and strange, Katherine Vaz's "Swan Sister" follows a young girl who imagines away her baby sister's illness and death until the memory haunts her adult life, when she is a mother herself. ...

• Sep-2016
• / Literary
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Henry turns to watch a pretty woman pass, and in that instant his young daughter, Mary, is struck and killed by a bus. Tender; gorgeously told in bold, vibrant strokes; and utterly shocking in both its imagery and its rawness, "Blue Flamingo Looks ...

• Sep-2016
• / Literary
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Young widow Brenda Márquez resides in unglamorous Hayward, California, with her sullen daughter, Blanca, and pregnant Gina, an unwed teen with a history in gangs. Stuck in a dead-end job at the DMV, Brenda feels invisible, certain no one could guess...

• Feb-2017
• / General Fiction
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In this long-awaited collection of short fiction by the author of Mariana and Our Lady of the Artichokes, beauty is continually and painfully present in all places--in a Thanksgiving dinner assembled by a widowed DMV worker being stalked by an ira...

• Nov-2023
• / Women's Fiction
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An irresistible and sweeping love story that follows two Portuguese refugees who flee religious violence and reignite their budding romance in Civil-War America.“Vaz's work is gorgeous at every level -- singing sentences and pull-you-in plot. She i...