Adi?s and Run — Elizabeth Fackler

A fat girl comes of age in the shadow of her suicidal sister; a nubile beauty navigates the fast lane of hustling drinks; an insecure late bloomer graduates from a doomed love affair; a new bride loses herself in the haunted South; a mother and son meld family truths; a hubristic architect constructs her own defeat; a lonely señorita finds her destiny in the love of an outlaw; this and all journeys end with running for your life. These are the stories collected here.