Selected by E. Annie Proulx for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories of 1997, and winner of the Willa Cather Award, June Spence is one of the most original new voices in fiction today. In her collection of short stories, Spence offers us rare...
After the near death of her mother in a house fire, Avie Goss, a change-of-life baby born nearly a generation after the births of her two siblings, returns to her Southern roots to care for her ailing mother, to try to understand and come to terms wi...