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Appalachia Now - Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia (Paperback): Charles Dodd White, Larry Smith Appalachia Now - Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia (Paperback)
Charles Dodd White, Larry Smith; Contributions by Chris Offutt, Chris Holbrook, Marie Manilla, …
R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Patron Saint of Ugly (Paperback): Marie Manilla The Patron Saint of Ugly (Paperback)
Marie Manilla
R500 R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Save R56 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Born in Sweetwater, West Virginia, with a mop of flaming red hair and a map of the world rendered in port-wine stains on every surface of her body, Garnet Ferrari is used to being an outcast. With her sharp tongue, she has always known how to defend herself against bullies and aggressors, but she finds she is less adept at fending off the pilgrims who have set up a veritable tent city outside her hilltop home, convinced that she is Saint Garnet, healer of skin ailments and maker of miracles.

Her grandmother, the indelible Nonna Diamante, believes that Garnet's mystical gift can be traced back to the family's origins in the Nebrodi Mountains of Sicily, and now the Vatican has sent an emissary to Sweetwater to investigate. Garnet, wanting nothing more than to debunk this "gift" and send these desperate souls packing, reaches back into her family's tangled past and unspools for the Church a tale of love triangles on the shores of the Messina Strait; a sad, beautiful maiden's gilded-cage childhood in blueblood Virginia; and the angelic, doomed boy Garnet could not protect.

Saint or not, Garnet learns that the line between reality and myth is always blurred, and that the aspects of ourselves we are most ashamed of can prove to be the source of our greatest strength, and even our salvation.

Still Life with Plums - Short Stories (Paperback): Marie Manilla Still Life with Plums - Short Stories (Paperback)
Marie Manilla
R436 R391 Discovery Miles 3 910 Save R45 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Still Life with Plums is a vibrant collection of short stories that weaves together the outwardly distant lives of several strangers. With heaping doses of dark humor and magical realism, these ten stories enliven a cast of characters carefully speckled throughout the southern portion of the United States. From West Virginians, to Texans and Latinos, Still Life with Plums circles the paths of a Black-Irish West Virginian, a wise-cracking dog groomer, an emasculated husband, a Guatemalan widow, a Japanese-Latin-American poster child from WWII, and a meticulous predator. Marie Manilla's accessible prose is deceptively layered, as she births and wrestles this quirky ensemble that unflinchingly probes the human psyche, while affirming a concrete connection to a shared place and identity.

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