Health (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Joy Williams
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Plot: Coming of age
- Time of Work: The 1980's
- Setting: Texas
- Principal Characters: Pammy, Morris, Marge, Wanda, Aurora
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Girls, Teaching or teachers, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, 1980’s, West, U.S., Imagination, Tuberculosis, Texas, Joy or sorrow
- Locales: Texas
The Story
Shortly after her twelfth birthday, Pammy is riding with her father, Morris, to a health spa, where she will receive one of the ten tanning sessions that she requested as a birthday gift. Tanning and roller-skating—two of her passions in her final preteen year—help mitigate the worries that beset her youth. As she and her father drive to the spa, some of these concerns begin to surface.
The condition of Pammy's family, in relation to families around her, both comforts and disturbs her. Her father, who teaches petroleum science at a local university, is an...
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