Moon Trees and Other Orphans
[New York, N.Y.] : Black Lawrence Press, 2019.
Format: Book
Description: 152 pages ; 22 cm
Moon Trees and Other Orphans is a gritty collection of short stories set along the Gulf Coast, focusing on themes of desperation, loneliness, and love. Filled with hard-living characters who are deeply lonely, it tracks the ways they fight for survival, often making very bad decisions as they go. Populated by gun toting women, ex-cons, desperate teens, and other outsiders, it is a collection about what life is like in hard places, both beautiful and dangerous.
Contents:
Moon trees -- Shallowing -- Pulpo -- Deformed -- Clown -- Elma -- The revival -- Naturallique -- Snake oil -- Ghosts -- At the very end -- Pinched magnolias -- El feo -- Everything shining -- The plague.
ISBN:
9781625570130
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Rourks | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |