Description: Two courageous spirits, mother and daughter, challenged by a new reality after a life-changing accident.
Brief description: Karen Brennan is an associate professor at the University of Utah, where she teaches in the graduate creative writing program. She is also on the faculty of the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, a low-residency MFA program. Her first collection of stories, Wild Desire, which won the Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction (1990), was praised for its witty and shrewd exploration of the extraordinary lives of women.