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Zusatztext Terry Tempest Williams Mary Sojourner is a warrior in the cause of expanding women's passion beyond delicate, beyond fifty years of age. Informationen zum Autor Mary Sojourner, now sixty-four, started writing at age forty-five. She is also the author of Solace: Rituals of Loss and Desire and is a contributor to NPR's Morning Edition. She teaches writing in Flagstaff, Arizona. Klappentext The lives of middle-aged women struggling with jobs and family, friendship and romance, are captured to perfection in this collection of humorous and touching stories set in the contemporary Southwest.Mary Sojourner writes about hardworking, hard-living, blue-collar women who fight quietly and fiercely to make their way in the world, find love and beauty, and hold on to their hopes. The heroines, most of them over forty, include single moms, aging hippies, women newly awakening to the possibility of love, and women confronting their own mortality. Zusammenfassung The lives of middle-aged women struggling with jobs and family, friendship and romance, are captured to perfection in this collection of humorous and touching stories set in the contemporary Southwest. Mary Sojourner writes about hardworking, hard-living, blue-collar women who fight quietly and fiercely to make their way in the world, find love and beauty, and hold on to their hopes. The heroines, most of them over forty, include single moms, aging hippies, women newly awakening to the possibility of love, and women confronting their own mortality. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTSBear HouseAbsolute Proof of the Cosmos in LifeBinkyThe Most Amazing ThingLuzianneMonstersArmageddon CoffeeWhat They Write in Other CountriesRivEstrellas Ranchos: Where the Real West BeginsSquirrelMy TreeOfficer Magdalena, White Shell Woman, and MeHagHuevosMessin' with the KidBetabankDelicate

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Mary Sojourner

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The lives of middle-aged women struggling with jobs and family, friendship and romance, are captured to perfection in this collection of humorous and touching stories set in the contemporary Southwest. Mary Sojourner writes about hardworking, hard-living, blue-collar women who fight quietly and fiercely to make their way in the world, find love and beauty, and hold on to their hopes. The heroines, most of them over forty, include single moms, aging hippies, women newly awakening to the possibility of love, and women confronting their own mortality.

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CONTENTS

Bear House

Absolute Proof of the Cosmos in Life

Binky

The Most Amazing Thing

Luzianne

Monsters

Armageddon Coffee

What They Write in Other Countries

Riv

Estrellas Ranchos: Where the Real West Begins

Squirrel

My Tree

Officer Magdalena, White Shell Woman, and Me

Hag

Huevos

Messin' with the Kid

Betabank

Delicate