Kirstin Allio

Clothed, Female Figure opens a singular investigation of women: mothers, daughters, gardeners, housecleaners, employers, aunts, nannies, friends. There are dispatches from haloed single-girl apartments in New York, from the horsetail scrubland behind the beach club, from the house behind the linden tree where the first baby was born. An overgrown back garden becomes the shrouded stage for a reunion. A Russian nanny guards a secret. A new wife subverts housekeeping to outflank her mother-in-law. An alcoholic daughter is haunted by her mother's disappearance. Through ten independent but thematically linked stories, Allio conjures women in conflict and on the edge, who embrace, battle, and transcend their domestic dimensions.

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Clothed, Female Figure

June Caldwell

Charles Rafferty

R. Nicholas Macioci

Seth Clabough

West Trade Review is a literary arts journal published quarterly (both online and print) that strives to put forth the best contemporary poetry, fiction, personal essays, photography, and artwork and publishes a mix of established and up and coming writers.

Kirstin Allio

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