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Paperback. Condition: Good. MB Caschetta's A Cheerleader's Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment records indelibly a life of hope during the devastation and aftermath of events leading up through the early 21st Century. Caschetta crystallizes the iconic moments of each unique era and community, exposing a girlhood rife with misogyny, a coming-to adulthood in the boom of social justice, a surprise family upheaval, and an unexpected shock during the surreal and suspended age of COVID. Even through the wreckage of our times, these essays find connection and redemption enough for us all.Like Joan Didion's extraordinary reporting on life in the 1960s, Caschetta's sureness of tone and linguistic acumen makes this memoir in essays an instant classic of American autobiography.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. MB Caschetta's A Cheerleader's Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment records indelibly a life of hope during the devastation and aftermath of events leading up through the early 21st Century. Caschetta crystallizes the iconic moments of each unique era and community, exposing a girlhood rife with misogyny, a coming-to adulthood in the boom of social justice, a surprise family upheaval, and an unexpected shock during the surreal and suspended age of COVID. Even through the wreckage of our times, these essays find connection and redemption enough for us all.Like Joan Didion's extraordinary reporting on life in the 1960s, Caschetta's sureness of tone and linguistic acumen makes this memoir in essays an instant classic of American autobiography. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. A grieving couple rents a desperate landlord's house in an effort to recover lost intimacy. Twins are irrevocably separated by events both beyond and within their control. A nighttime prank and its gruesome aftermath forge human connections no one could have anticipated.The eight stories in Half as Happy reveal with startling clarity their characters' secrets, losses, and desires. Each with the depth of a novel, these insightful portraits of the darkness and light within us reverberate long after they've ended, like beautiful and disturbing dreams.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. MB Caschetta's A Cheerleader's Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment records indelibly a life of hope during the devastation and aftermath of events leading up through the early 21st Century. Caschetta crystallizes the iconic moments of each unique era and community, exposing a girlhood rife with misogyny, a coming-to adulthood in the boom of social justice, a surprise family upheaval, and an unexpected shock during the surreal and suspended age of COVID. Even through the wreckage of our times, these essays find connection and redemption enough for us all.Like Joan Didion's extraordinary reporting on life in the 1960s, Caschetta's sureness of tone and linguistic acumen makes this memoir in essays an instant classic of American autobiography.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. MB Caschetta's A Cheerleader's Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment records indelibly a life of hope during the devastation and aftermath of events leading up through the early 21st Century. Caschetta crystallizes the iconic moments of each unique era and community, exposing a girlhood rife with misogyny, a coming-to adulthood in the boom of social justice, a surprise family upheaval, and an unexpected shock during the surreal and suspended age of COVID. Even through the wreckage of our times, these essays find connection and redemption enough for us all.Like Joan Didion's extraordinary reporting on life in the 1960s, Caschetta's sureness of tone and linguistic acumen makes this memoir in essays an instant classic of American autobiography. …

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Years after her brother Sam's suicide, Sarah Pelton remains unable to fully occupy her world without him in it. Now, while her surviving brothers prepare to sell the family's tenant farm and a young woman's life hangs in the balance, Sarah is forced to confront the life Sam lived and the secrets he left behind. As she assembles the artifacts of her family's history in east Texas in the hope of discovering her own future, images from her work as an anthropologist--images of sacrifice, ritual, and death--haunt her waking dreams.In this moving debut novel, Nan Cuba unearths the power of family legacies and the indelible imprint of loss on all our lives.Nan Cuba is the founder and executive director emeritus of Gemini Ink, a nonprofit literary center, and is currently an assistant professor of English at Our Lady of the Lake University. As an investigative journalist, she reported on the causes of extraordinary violence in publications such as Life and D Magazine. Her stories, poems, and reviews have appeared in Quarterly West, Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose, The Bloomsbury Review, and the Harvard Review, among others. She is co-editor of Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers & Artists (Trinity University Press, 2008).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Years after her brother Sam's suicide, Sarah Pelton remains unable to fully occupy her world without him in it. Now, while her surviving brothers prepare to sell the family's tenant farm and a young woman's life hangs in the balance, Sarah is forced to confront the life Sam lived and the secrets he left behind. As she assembles the artifacts of her family's history in east Texas in the hope of discovering her own future, images from her work as an anthropologist--images of sacrifice, ritual, and death--haunt her waking dreams.In this moving debut novel, Nan Cuba unearths the power of family legacies and the indelible imprint of loss on all our lives.Nan Cuba is the founder and executive director emeritus of Gemini Ink, a nonprofit literary center, and is currently an assistant professor of English at Our Lady of the Lake University. As an investigative journalist, she reported on the causes of extraordinary violence in publications such as Life and D Magazine. Her stories, poems, and reviews have appeared in Quarterly West, Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose, The Bloomsbury Review, and the Harvard Review, among others. She is co-editor of Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers & Artists (Trinity University Press, 2008).…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. A grieving couple rents a desperate landlord's house in an effort to recover lost intimacy. Twins are irrevocably separated by events both beyond and within their control. A nighttime prank and its gruesome aftermath forge human connections no one could have anticipated.The eight stories in Half as Happy reveal with startling clarity their characters' secrets, losses, and desires. Each with the depth of a novel, these insightful portraits of the darkness and light within us reverberate long after they've ended, like beautiful and disturbing dreams.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. In this collection of elegant, moving stories, Patricia Henley explores the many bonds and betrayals among women: mothers, daughters, lovers, friends. Her characters, at once familiar and surprising, make their way through grief and discovery, revealing the power of their own hearts and of the landscapes where they reside. In Rocky Gap, June Peck and her family gather to honor their lost sister; in Red Lily the secrets and lies Jenny Rogers keeps and tells will change her life; in the haunting and hopeful Ephemera, Sophie March-Gonzales faces the worst kind of loss, and through that loss, finds a future to cherish. Don't miss the first collection of new stories since 1992 from one of our most powerful writers.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Trip Through Your Wires is compulsively readable.--Porter Shreve, author of Drives Like a DreamA clue to her boyfriend's murder draws Carey back into the mystery that led to his death, forcing her to re-examine her own culpability and the self-delusion that blinded her to the dangers of his world. As she follows the clues and searches her memory, searing loss and guilt take over her life.Sarah Layden's fiction can be found in numerous journals and anthologies. A two-time Society of Professional Journalists award winner, her nonfiction has appeared in Ladies' Home Journal and the Writer's Chronicle.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Years after her brother Sam's suicide, Sarah Pelton remains unable to fully occupy her world without him in it. Now, while her surviving brothers prepare to sell the family's tenant farm and a young woman's life hangs in the balance, Sarah is forced to confront the life Sam lived and the secrets he left behind. As she assembles the artifacts of her family's history in east Texas in the hope of discovering her own future, images from her work as an anthropologist--images of sacrifice, ritual, and death--haunt her waking dreams.In this moving debut novel, Nan Cuba unearths the power of family legacies and the indelible imprint of loss on all our lives.Nan Cuba is the founder and executive director emeritus of Gemini Ink, a nonprofit literary center, and is currently an assistant professor of English at Our Lady of the Lake University. As an investigative journalist, she reported on the causes of extraordinary violence in publications such as Life and D Magazine. Her stories, poems, and reviews have appeared in Quarterly West, Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose, The Bloomsbury Review, and the Harvard Review, among others. She is co-editor of Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers & Artists (Trinity University Press, 2008).…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Years after her brother Sam's suicide, Sarah Pelton remains unable to fully occupy her world without him in it. Now, while her surviving brothers prepare to sell the family's tenant farm and a young woman's life hangs in the balance, Sarah is forced to confront the life Sam lived and the secrets he left behind. As she assembles the artifacts of her family's history in east Texas in the hope of discovering her own future, images from her work as an anthropologist--images of sacrifice, ritual, and death--haunt her waking dreams.In this moving debut novel, Nan Cuba unearths the power of family legacies and the indelible imprint of loss on all our lives.Nan Cuba is the founder and executive director emeritus of Gemini Ink, a nonprofit literary center, and is currently an assistant professor of English at Our Lady of the Lake University. As an investigative journalist, she reported on the causes of extraordinary violence in publications such as Life and D Magazine. Her stories, poems, and reviews have appeared in Quarterly West, Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose, The Bloomsbury Review, and the Harvard Review, among others. She is co-editor of Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers & Artists (Trinity University Press, 2008).…

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