The Riverhouse Stories

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How Pubah S. Queen and Lazy LaRue Save the World

by Andrea Carlisle

Lazy loved Pubah and loved loving her. Out past the edges of the world’s agreement, beyond even her own standards, her own approval, the rules of her childhood, beyond even her own mind, she loved her and loved loving her. The loving brought forth in her all of her courage as well as all of her limitations, all of her blind desire to be like the others, to melt in, to be invisible. It took her out of the roles she thought she would grow up to fill. It took her away from her automatic stream of pictures of what life should be and forced her to create her own version of what life could be. And beyond all of that was the woman she loved, living a life made from nothing more than her own imagination, and she was beautiful.

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Description

Andrea Carlisle was born and raised in North Dakota, studied at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she received a degree in English and Creative Writing, and now lives in Portland, OR. She has worked as a counselor and consultant for adolescent programs, as a writing instructor, and as a writer for various state and local businesses and bureaucracies. Her fiction has been published in CALYX Journal, Willow Springs, and Northwest Review. For her creative writing, she has earned an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artists Fellowship, a citation as an “outstanding writer” by the Pushcart Awards, and selection as a participant in the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont. She lives on a houseboat on the Multnomah Channel of the Columbia River where she continues to write.

 

Reviews

“In this novel you can find out why ducks are holy and life is embarrassing, how to get from a houseboat to a balloon, what an Oregon conversation is, and many other interesting things. It is the most good-natured book I ever read.”

“It’s a gift to the world, not quite a novel, not quite a collection of short stories….A precious moment in the channels of contemporary literature…very simply, a book of the heart.”–San Francisco Chronicle

“Her stories are carefully crafted magic….They joyously lull and illuminate.”–Chicago Tribune

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