There Is No Long Distance Now: Very Short Stories

Description

You won't soon forget the cast of teen and adult characters in Naomi Shihab Nye's forty extremely short stories. Each and every story-all are just a few pages long-has the power to make a connection as well as deliver a laugh, a tear or two, a start of surprise, or a great big wallop to the gut. This is a book for readers who like to dip in and out and come and go, for reluctant readers, for the poet's many devoted fans, for writing teachers and their students, for teens and adults alike.

Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet and anthologist and the acclaimed author of Habibi: A Novel and Sitti's Secrets, a picture book, which was based on her own experiences visiting her beloved Sitti in Palestine. Her book 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has taught writing and worked in schools all over the world, including in Muscat, Oman. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.

"Nye's work opens readers' eyes to new worlds and experiences and does it with thoughtful simplicity." -- Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)