The Need Borders Original Voices Award for Nonfiction (2000) Written in typically luminous prose

Written in typically luminous prose and featuring a rich cast of characters

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inspiration and spirituality

Nineteen-year-old Mari is waiting out the night in an anonymous Denny’s when she meets a young man who insists he knows her older sister

The Need Borders Original Voices Award for Nonfiction (2000) Written in typically luminous proseShe crouched in front of the mirror in the dark, clinging to them. The baby in her right arm, the child in her left. There were footsteps in the other room Molly is exhausted, anxious, losing her grip on reality. Her husband is away and she is running between her children and her job, where things are unravelling. Shes a paleobotanist, working at a fossil quarry, and has recently unearthed artefacts that defy understanding; the coke bottle with the