Virginia Franconi left home at eighteen like the hounds of hell were nipping at her heels. Now, in her mid-twenties, she returns to the family farm in Idaho. Her sour, belligerent father, once an iron-fisted ruler, is weak and...
In 1939, nineteen-year-old Nobuko Ito, born and raised in Fresno, California, sails to Japan to learn the culture and customs of her ancestors. She lives with her host family in the mountain village of Nishimi, where her host, her...
Queenie’s Place is about the unusual friendship between a 30-something white woman from California and a 50-something black woman raised in the Jim Crow south. Both women are just trying to be themselves. Set in rural North Carolina on...
Short stories that spread around the world and told from the viewpoints of everyday people.
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