Cimarron (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Francine Prose
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: 1983-1984
- Setting: Cimarron Acres trailer park, near Oneonta, New York
- Principal Characters: Coral, Margo, Gene, Lee, Tracy, Paul
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1980’s, Pregnancy, Single parents or single-parent families, Death or dying, Childbirth, Soldiers, Prophecy or prophets, Gifts, Mobile homes or trailer parks
- Locales: Oneonta, NY
The Story
Shortly after resigning herself to the fact that her husband, Kenny, will be absent from the birth of their first child, Coral sees a television news broadcast reporting that Kenny has been killed in Beirut, Lebanon. He is a victim of a terrorist car bomb attack on his military barracks. Over the ensuing weeks, Coral takes poor care of herself. Still numbed by Kenny's death, she exists only mechanically. She is thus relieved when her in-laws, Gene and Margo, take charge of her life by moving her to their somewhat unkempt rural trailer court at Cimarron Acres.
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