Short, Cheap, Nearly Great Books SE Denver: The Heifer by Melissa Hardy

Monday, October 29, 2012

The Heifer by Melissa Hardy

Read "The Heifer" by Melissa Hardy and join us for a discussion in the Community Room on the West side of Whole Foods. We discuss this at 7:30 PM on Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012.

This work can be found in The Best American Short Stories - 2002 on page 97.

Some questions for discussion:

Would Aina have been happy had she stayed in Finland?
Why does the author reflect Genesis 12 with:
However, the idea of leaving her family and her village and everything that was familiar to her … moving to Canada and marrying Uwe Pahakka filled her brain to bursting.

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