Set in Appalachian Ohio amid an epidemic of prescription opiate
abuse, Michael Henson's linked collection tells of a woman's search
for her own peculiar kind of redemption, and brings the
novel-in-stories form to new heights. Maggie Boylan is an addict,
thief, liar, and hustler. But she is also a woman of deep
compassion and resilience. The stories follow Maggie as she spirals
through her addictive process, through the court system and
treatment, and into a shaky new beginning. In these masterful
stories, we rarely occupy Maggie's perspective, but instead gain a
multilayered portrait of a community as we see other people's lives
bump up against hers-and we witness her inserting herself into
their spheres, refusing to be rebuffed. The result is a prismatic
view of a community fighting to stay upright against the headwinds
of a drug epidemic: always on edge, always human.
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