"A work of exquisite beauty."
 
                     -Jayne Anne Phillips


"A lovingly rendered story of a family and a community surrendering angrily to changing times…few authors have paid attention to characters descended from Steinbeck’s and Norris’s, and it's refreshing to see a novel that does justice to this forgotten pocket 
of the country."         
               
                        –Publishers Weekly

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"Under" by Inés Batlló

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"The Remains of the Raisin" 
Essay in Pithead Chapel