Nuclear People

by Mona Rae Miracle

Nuclear. Potential to explode. A compressed family unit. The core that governs a cell. A spark that fires a chain of changes. In eleven short works, the image continues expanding and diversifying. From Ice Age France ("Primitive Venus") to contemporary America ("Two Dads"), characters struggle to survive emotional ground zero. They accept the challenge with poignant, or dark, or humorous tactics. Myths are inverted. Males and females, teens and elders, these nuclear people orbit in a variety of family relationships, split, fuse, and look back on cascades of fallout

Paperback

Published October 8, 2010

About the author

Education:
B.A., English; minor Journalism.
M.A., English; minor Journalism, University of Florida at Gainesville.