Message to the Nurse of Dreams
A Collection of Short Fiction
It’s the 60’s in Texas. Towns like Port Sabine and Vidor. White kids and black kids in school together for the first time.
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Tags: short stories
The black disc jockey says, "This one is dedicated to all you blue-eyed soul sisters out there, hiding what the good Lord gave you. Move into it, babies." Message to the Nurse of Dreams is about growing up in the late 60s in a Gulf-wind-soaked Texas oil town where every kid was one generation removed from the country but nobody was a cowboy, in the time we all—black and white—got mixed together, half-grown, half-children, trying to decide if we were as different as we'd been led to believe our whole lives.
Book Details
Paperback:
10-digit ISBN: 0-938317-27-X
13-digit ISBN: 9780938317272
Details
Language: English
Page Count: 192
Paperback Publication Date: April 1, 1997
Rights: All Rights Available
Awards and Accomodations
Violet Crown Award 1997, Texas Writers LeagueBest Fiction 1997, Texas Institute of Letters2 reviews for Message to the Nurse of Dreams
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Library Journal
Set in the late 1960s, this refreshing collection of stories deals with black and white youth, not quite grown, who are trying to comprehend why and how they are all mexied together in a Texas oil town.
New York Times
Sandlin’s stories focus on young women, using their naiveté to build moving portrayals of people coming to understand others even as they remain unsure about themselves.