Lucky Tomorrow: Stories by Jiang-Stein, Deborah
Lucky Tomorrow: Stories by Jiang-Stein, Deborah

Lucky Tomorrow: Stories

Lives of longing and resilience, searching and belonging in a debut story collection from a memoirist and...
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SKU: 9781517919276
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Author: Deborah Jiang-Stein
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Lucky Tomorrow: Stories by Jiang-Stein, Deborah

Lucky Tomorrow: Stories

$49.06
Lucky Tomorrow: Stories by Jiang-Stein, Deborah

Lucky Tomorrow: Stories

$49.06
Author: Deborah Jiang-Stein
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

Lives of longing and resilience, searching and belonging in a debut story collection from a memoirist and renowned advocate for change

For a Lucky Tomorrow Buy a Flower Today. Is it true? a prospective customer asks. About the luck? "Absolutely!" Felma says. Flowers, she knows, are all that's anchored in this world, even if not for long, and like others in these luminous stories, Felma knows what it is to be rootless. In Lucky Tomorrow, Deborah Jiang-Stein presents an unforgettable cast of characters dreaming of redemption, purpose, and connection in a wounded yet beautiful world.

A young girl stuck working at her family's candy stand. A former priest trapped on a crowded train. A prisoner robbed of the book she's been writing. A father haunted by his broken family. A woman confined to a psych ward. A reverend caring for her dying housemate. And Felma, a flower vendor, searching for the daughter she gave birth to while in prison, who was swiftly bundled away. Felma's story leads us in, through, and around the others--a central beating heart for these lives on the fringes, where Jiang-Stein finds a singular, tenacious humanity.

The stories in Lucky Tomorrow move through settings drawn from the path of the author's own life: Seattle, where she grew up after being born in an Appalachian prison; Tokyo, where she once lived; the Twin Cities, where she currently resides; and the American South, where she travels for much of her advocacy work with women in prison. Pushing the boundaries of genre, Jiang-Stein delicately layers the stories of these outcasts, eccentrics, and visionaries, gathering them in from the shadows with remarkable empathy and candor, laying bare our shared sorrows and joys.



Author: Deborah Jiang-Stein
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 05/20/2025
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781517919276

About the Author

Deborah Jiang-Stein is an award-winning writer, public speaker, collaborator, and author of the memoir Prison Baby. She is founder of the unPrison Project, working with and mentoring people in prisons to build life skills.


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