| Description |
152 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
Moon Trees and Other Orphans is a gritty collection of short stories set along the Gulf Coast, focusing on themes of desperation, loneliness, and love. Filled with hard-living characters who are deeply lonely, it tracks the ways they fight for survival, often making very bad decisions as they go. Populated by gun toting women, ex-cons, desperate teens, and other outsiders, it is a collection about what life is like in hard places, both beautiful and dangerous. |
| Contents |
Moon trees -- Shallowing -- Pulpo -- Deformed -- Clown -- Elma -- The revival -- Naturallique -- Snake oil -- Ghosts -- At the very end -- Pinched magnolias -- El feo -- Everything shining -- The plague. |
| Subject |
Gulf Coast (U.S.) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| ISBN |
1625570139 |
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9781625570130 |
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