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Valerie Miner
Here Valerie Miner provides an account of her family’s migration from Edinburgh’s tenements across the world. Focusing on the life journeys of her grandmother, her mother and herself, Miner searches…
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Valerie Miner’s fourth collection of short fiction looks closely at definitions of family and asks how this fragile and frightening entity can shape us, nurture us, or even destroy us…
Loss and renewal in the lives of an individual and a community
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Originally published by Crossing Press in 1987.
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Originally published in 1982 by St. Martin’s Press.
Here comes a walking fire, the Fool says to Lear as he sees Gloucester walking across a heath carrying a torch. This novel opens in fall, 1988, as Cora, an…
The stories in Bread and Salt use the metaphor of salvage to consider the reclamation of the natural environment, human relationships, and material objects. The stories are about forgiveness, reunion…
Two old friends who have not seen each other for decades spend a week hiking through the stunning scenery of California’s High Sierra
Twenty-five years ago, a group of five…
In a story populated by Pomo Indians, Euro-American ranchers and vintners, and Mexican American migrant labourers, Valerie Miner deftly juxtaposes differing cultural views of wilderness, trespassing, and home. Her dramatic…
On one block of San Francisco’s tenderloin district in the late 1970s, two working-class women strengthen their friendship through working on a local political election threatening the neighbourhood with gentrification.
Valerie Swenson
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
