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172 pp, 1981
$20.00 hardcover 0-87745-113-3
Winner of the 1981 Iowa Short Fiction Award
"Thomas' stories . . . blend a comic and irreverent wit with an odd archaic diction, something like a marriage of Frank O'Connor and Flannery O'Connor, with a touch of Sherwood Anderson."—Washington Post
"The stories are written with a deceptive simplicity and clarity of style."—Library Journal
"In nearly every piece, there is a conflict arising from limits. And there is a wildness that she makes preternatural and larger than human, uncontrollable, as in the [story] "Twister," which takes the farm but not the child beside it. Saying all this, pinning her incredible complex tales to some thematic category is, of course, simple-minded of me. For what is most evident here beside Thomas' unique gift as a storyteller and aside from the distinctive textures of the stories, what is evident is her faith in the strength of the human character. . . . The Phototropic Woman is . . . the best new collection of stories I have seen in years."—National Public Radio
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