"With this...full-length collection, that strong knife-sharp voice...draws together the stories of a woman's confrontation with loss, betrayal, disappointment, and passion, rendered in language both plain-spoken and powerful. There is no fancy language here, no turning away from what demands to be said straight out. Whether they take as their subject the lost baby who "weighed a pound and lived through the night," the neighbor whose husband has Alzheimer's,...
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