Stiltsville (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Francis DuVal: Main character, narrator
• Dennis DuVal: Francis's husband
• Marse: Francis's friend.
• Margo: Francis and Dennis's daughter.
• Gloria and Grady DuVal: Dennis's parents
• Bette DuVal: Dennis's sister
• Paul: Paul is somewhat of a jerk early in the story, but then turns out to be a wonderful friend!
• Stuart: Add a description of this character.
• Jack
• Kyle
• Lola
• Benjamin
• Mr. Oxley
• Frances
• Suzanne
• Kathleen
• Trisha
• Mrs. Madansky
• Carla
• Dr. Auerbach
• Jane
• Judy
• Mr. Costakis
• Mr. Callahan
• Twyla
• Cynthia
• Julia
• Adam
• Daphne

Quotes edit see section history

• “Why is it you can break her heart but I can't?”

  Francis to Dennis

• “"Just what we need in this channel," I said. "A great white on cocaine."”

  Francis

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• I’d known a few men pretty well, and something I’d noticed about many of them was that for some reason they didn’t like to give you what you want, whatever it happened to be—reassurance or approval or attention. This seemingly was not because they couldn’t spare it, but because they wanted to teach you not to want it.

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• their needs were sated so fully and with such generosity by the women in their lives that they didn’t recognize needing something in the first place.

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• But in my mind, people weren’t needy or independent—they were a swirl of both.

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• This is what it means to be part of a family. There are no maps and the territory is continually changing. We are explorers, traveling in groups.

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• I hoped Margo would learn that the cement of a marriage never really dries, and she would apply that understanding to her parents, and value the work we’d done to survive.

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• although we like to believe we are our own little islands, capable of protecting ourselves as well as sheltering and welcoming others, this is never really the case. Still, we must behave as if it is, and hope that we can withstand the wills of other people more often than we cannot.

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• I did not understand, taking those pictures, that history must be collected while the subject exists. If not, what goes unrecorded can fill an ocean.

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• As I grew to know Dennis, it struck me that he was not one of these men. From the beginning, he did not withhold. This, ultimately, was the answer to his question, though I could not have formulated it at the time.

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• “To survive one must overcome the need for comfort and maintain the will to live.”

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• I’d found a person to love, and together we’d made another person to love. It was simultaneously exactly what I’d wanted and more than I could have asked for myself.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Miami
• Atlanta
• Gainesville
• Stiltsville
• South Florida
• Coconut Grove
• Key Biscayne
• Coral Gables
• Biscayne Bay
• Georgia

First Sentence edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Susanna Daniel (Author)

Awards edit see section history

• Amazon Best of the Month (August 2010, #7)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.6

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Stiltsville: The Place