By Sahar Mustafah

The Doctor’s Wife by Luis Jaramillo won the Dzanc Short Story Collection contest and was published in 2012. Set in Washington State, it follows a quintessential American family over four decades, from the 1950’s to the present. The vignette-style structure and shifting points of view reconstruct the experiences of raising children and growing up post-war, while exposing the triumphs and losses any family endures over subsequent generations. (more…)