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"In [these] stories set in the southwest, the mostly working-class characters struggle to rise beyond their pasts and their own worst tendencies ... Sojourner uses passion, high-energy storytelling, and unflinching empathy to break the reader's heart." - KIRKUS REVIEWS"The heart in these stories beats out of its chest. Sojourner is the voice of the luckless, the rejected, and the defiantly free. Reading this collection will give you blisters in tender places, and you'll be proud of them." - BRADEN HEPNER, author of Pale Harvest"Long ago, farming families would leave a candle in a window at night so that a wayward soul wandering in the dark could find a way to comfort. This best describes Mary Sojourners' tales of small lives struggling for connection.
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She would brew a cup of coffee from the last of the beans. She would leave the windows open, the last tangerines sliced open on the sill. She would put on the t-shirt and jeans thrown across the foot of the bed and take her coffee to the front stoop. If she were lucky, the parrots would fly down from the black palms across the street. They would bend their scarlet heads and feed.
