Little PegUntreed Reads, 2012 M09 10 - 155 pages Peg O'Crerieh is a wife, mother, creative writing instructor, and occasional resident of the Everview Residential Treatment Center, which she is once again preparing to leave. Awaiting Peg at home are her devoted family; the normal pressures of daily life; and, most important, the students in her Nontraditional English class, where the assignment is always to write about Peg. As Peg struggles to find her place in the outside world, she finds herself drawn into her students' stories. Usurping their material, revising their facts, Peg slowly inches toward the truth until she is finally able to leave the worst behind. By turns brilliantly comic and achingly sad, Little Peg is a portrait of a single woman, in extremis and in exultation, and of a life transformed by the retrospective powers of a gifted writer. |
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... Everview Residential Treatment Center for almost as long as I have been married. In the early seventies it was called Everview Halfway House, and it had no wroughtiron gates and archways, and the large adobe building was not divided ...
... Everview Residential Treatment Center for almost as long as I have been married. In the early seventies it was called Everview Halfway House, and it had no wroughtiron gates and archways, and the large adobe building was not divided ...
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... Everview bus lady has given several of us a morning ride on a small bluff road just beyond the northern edge of Las Almas. On this high edge, I can see most of the Mesilla Valley. It is softened by the dew, as if some artist wanting to ...
... Everview bus lady has given several of us a morning ride on a small bluff road just beyond the northern edge of Las Almas. On this high edge, I can see most of the Mesilla Valley. It is softened by the dew, as if some artist wanting to ...
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... Everview to various apartments and then back in with them before eventually returning to Everview. People strange enough to agree to such a life should be called “estranged.” That will do fine to describe James and me. I asked when ...
... Everview to various apartments and then back in with them before eventually returning to Everview. People strange enough to agree to such a life should be called “estranged.” That will do fine to describe James and me. I asked when ...
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... Everview. All the Everview residents have a little card we show him. Francis has scratched out her name on hers, and written Bug. After Nassar has walked past, Molly says, “We worry about you.” “God. You're so mature, Molly. Look how ...
... Everview. All the Everview residents have a little card we show him. Francis has scratched out her name on hers, and written Bug. After Nassar has walked past, Molly says, “We worry about you.” “God. You're so mature, Molly. Look how ...
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... Everview we've talked about it. I realize that people probably still ask. “Do you tell them about how I teach in the ... Everview.” “What?” I say. At first I want to explain that we aren't “patients” at Everview, that it's not an asylum ...
... Everview we've talked about it. I realize that people probably still ask. “Do you tell them about how I teach in the ... Everview.” “What?” I say. At first I want to explain that we aren't “patients” at Everview, that it's not an asylum ...
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