Equal Love (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Ho Davies
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: The present
- Setting: England and the United States
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Children, Family or family life, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Brothers, Divorce, Dentistry or dentists, England
- Locales: United States, England
Peter Ho Davies, of Chinese-Welsh descent, has lived in Malaysia, England, and the United States. He has taught at a number of universities and colleges, including the University of Oregon in its creative writing program. His first book of short stories, The Ugliest House in the World (1997), won an O. Henry Award and a National Endowment Fellowship.
“The Hull Case” concerns a biracial couple purportedly abducted and experimented upon by aliens. Henry is an African American and former G.I. wounded in Korea, and Helen is the Caucasian nurse who tended to him. As they...
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