The Viewing Room Stories

Two hospital chaplains console the living during the moments when they look upon their beloved dead for one last time in a large urban hospital in Los Angeles. This moving and unsettling collection of stories shines a piercing light on the dark corners of our modern world, illuminating necessary truths that convey a clearer and, undoubtedly, greater vision of humanity.

About the author

JACQUELIN GORMAN is the author of The Seeing Glass, a memoir. She grew up in a family of physicians in the shadow of Johns Hopkins Hospital and spent a great deal of time in Maryland's hospitals as a girl. She has practiced as a health-care lawyer in Los Angeles and as a hospital chaplain, and she is currently the program director at the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Her stories have appeared in Slake Magazine, Kenyon Review, ScreamOnline, The Journal, and Reader's Digest.

Product details

• Authors: Jacquelin Gorman, Jacqueline Laks/ Zafris Gorman
• Assisted by: Nancy Zafris (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 28.02.2017
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9780820351452
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-5145-2
• Pages: 152
• Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Sh > 82; Flannery O'Connor Award for Sh > 82
• Subjects: FICTION / Short Stories (single author); Fiction - General