Better Homes and Other Fictions: Collected Prose by Connie J. MaraanThis collection of Maraans short fiction and creative Non Fiction will afford even the ordinary reader an intimate view of the authors clear and deceptively simple style, which matches her clear eyed vision of the world and the multiple roles she must play in it. She currently works with the Social Development Research Center of De La Salle University. This is her second book. Best Short Fiction, National Book Awards