Natalie L.M. Petesch

• Jul-1982
• / General Fiction

“During the nineteen sixties, following the missile crisis and during the Vietnam War, communitarian societies began to reappear in the United States. Those who were of an invincibly optimistic nature gathered together in agrarian or utopian co...

• Jan-1987
• / General Fiction

Petesch is well-known for her story writing. In this, her fifth collection, she spans time and geography, moving from the America's Great Depression to contemporary Spain and Mexico. Fans of Petesch will find that her voice remains as gritty as ever,...

• Mar-1987
• / General Fiction

Flowering Mimosa is a story of lost innocence and coming of age among the disinherited of America in the 1980s. Against a backdrop of social and economic disruption in the American southwest, Petesch traces the fates of the Wingfield family, w...

• Dec-1990
• / General Fiction

This collection of stories is, like Petesch’s previous work, distinguished by its brilliant lyrical intensity and by characters who are stunningly alive. It is a powerful collection about impassioned cultural conflicts in present-day Spain and Mexi...

• Aug-1996
• / General Fiction

Natalie Petesch is a wonder of a writer. There is absolutely no one like her. She is courageous almost to the point of being fierce; And unbearably honest. And wise. And full of tears. I salute her fine work. -- Gerald Stern ... The subject matter is...

• Jul-1999
• / General Fiction

• Jul-2005
• / Historical

“Memory, of course, is sometimes like a bucking horse, sometimes a runaway one, and one must control the reins until finally it stops, snorting with exhausted relief,” writes Natalie L. M. Petesch in her haunting new collection, The Confessions o...