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 · PUBLISHERS WEEKLY . Stefaniak (The Turk and My Mother) delivers a deeply engaging story from the heart of s-era Threestep, Ga., that manages to include stop offs in Baghdad and Savannah along the way. Mary Helen Stefaniak is the prize-winning author of The Turk and My Mother, Self Storage and Other Stories, and The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia. She lives in /5(52). It has been translated into seven languages. Her collection of short fiction, Self Storage and Other Stories (New Rivers Press), received the Wisconsin Library Association's Banta Award for Literary Excellence, and her novella, "The Turk and My Mother" (EPOCH, Fall ) was shortlisted for the O. .

In her first novel The Turk and My Mother, Mary Helen Stefaniak, a published writer of many short stories and a novella of the same title, draws on her own family stories in describing the transition of a Croatian immigrant family from its small village of Novo Selo in Hungary to Milwaukee prior to and. Stefaniak, Mary Helen The Turk and My Mother. Storytelling is at the heart of Stefaniak's (Self Storage and Other Stories) lovingly crafted volume of three interwoven family tales (subtitled "A Novel"), which captures the history of a Croatian-American family settled in Milwaukee after World War I. The. Mary Helen Stefaniak's charming and flawe Every family has its secrets. But toward the end of his life, George decides to tell his daughter the story of his mother and the Turk. This initial revelation leads to a narrative tour de force that follows a family through four generations and around the world—through.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY . Stefaniak (The Turk and My Mother) delivers a deeply engaging story from the heart of s-era Threestep, Ga., that manages to include stop offs in Baghdad and Savannah along the way. Mary Helen Stefaniak is the prize-winning author of The Turk and My Mother, Self Storage and Other Stories, and The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia. She lives in Omaha and Iowa City. She lives in Omaha and Iowa City. www.doorway.ru: The Turk and My Mother: A Novel () by Stefaniak, Mary Helen and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices.