People Like That Are the Only People Here (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Marie Lorena Moore
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Plot: Psychological, autobiographical
- Time of Work: The 1990's
- Setting: An unnamed midwestern town
- Principal Characters: The mother, The husband, The baby
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Midwest, Cancer, Surgery or surgeons, Small-town life, 1990’s, Life and death
- Locales: Midwest (U.S.)
The Story
“People Like That Are the Only People Here” is told in the third person through the perspective of a mother who discovers that her baby has cancer. The principal characters and the doctors are not named. The mother is a writer who must use her utmost intellectual and emotional resources to get through her baby's radical nephrectomy in a pediatric oncology unit at a children's hospital.
With little warning other than the baby's appearing to be slightly ill, the mother discovers a blood clot in her baby's diaper. She phones a nearby pediatric clinic and is...
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