In the Country of Women. Susan Straight

In the Country of Women - Susan  Straight


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California, 1989

       17 Wild Things

       Riverside, California, 1995

       18 Pig

       Rubidoux and Riverside, California, 1997 (South Carolina, Oklahoma, Florida, Georgia)

       19 The Santa Ana River

       20 A Secondhand Lonely

       Riverside, California, 1998

       21 Dew Point—A Pack of Four

       Riverside, California, Endless

       22 Love Strands

       Riverside, California, 2000

       23 Crosses and Missions

       California, 1998, 2000, 2004

       24 Coach—Driveway #2

       Riverside, California, 2004

       25 The Batmobile

       Riverside, California, 2005

       26 The Yard Couch

       Riverside, California, 2008

       27 Grizzly

       Riverside, California (Tulsa, Oklahoma; Fraser, Colorado)

       28 Nine

       29 Al Green—Driveway #1, The Second Love Letter

       Riverside, California

       30 Travels with My Ex in the Time of Revenue

       Orange County, California, 2009

       PART IV

       31 Switzerland, Loveland, Cuddyland

       Always, January 12, 1950, Always

       32 Bring Me Your Smartest Girl

       Riverside, California, 2008; Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1925

       33 Kin—White House #1

       Los Angeles, California, 2009 (Tulsa, Oklahoma; Riverside, California)

       34 A Place of Style and Refuge—White House #2

       Riverside, California, December 2011

       35 Letter to My Nephew—Our Dungeon Shook (After James Baldwin)

       Riverside, California, 2012

       36 American Human Not Interested

       37 Braid/Züpfe

       Los Angeles, California, 2017

       38 Ancestry

       Riverside and Santa Barbara, California; Ibadan, Nigeria, 2018

       39 Saphina

       Tennessee, 1870

       40 The Work of Women—Evaporation and Memory, White House #3

       Riverside, California, 2018

       Acknowledgments

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       Prologue

       Homerica

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      To my daughters:

      They never tell us about the odysseys of women. They never say about a woman: “Her passage was worthy of Homer . . . her voyage a mythic quest for new lands.” Women don’t get the Heroine’s Journey.

      Men are accorded the road and the sea and the asphalt. The monsters and battles and the murders. Men get The Iliad and The Odyssey. They get Joseph Campbell. They get The Thousand Faces of the Hero. They get “the epic novel,” “the great American story,” and Ken Burns documentaries.

      But our women fought harder than men—they fought men! Men who claimed to love them, to protect them, to help them—men who trapped and tried to kill them. They fought for sons and daughters, they had the battalions of their sisters and mothers and aunts. Some bad-ass aunts. The women used their cunning and their bullets, the power of their ancestors and of the other women in the wagon or the truck with them. They survived passages that would


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