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One Dark BodyCan a motherless girl and fatherless boy find healing? Raisin 1963 This a funny place. Maybe cause of the mountain standing up behind our town watching like a big old eye. Or maybe it's that lake stretching way out, reaching black to black, pushing its way cross the earth like it's in a hurry to run away from here. Or maybe it's that twisted-trunk, yellow-leaf tree next to Blue-the-wanga-man's house, with the leaves that shine like gold lamps through the trees, day or night. But some folks say no, it's not that mountain sitting back watching over us, and it's not that black lake reaching, and it's not that old white-trunked, yellow-tipped tree next to Blue's that Reverend Daniles swears covers a hole leading from this world to the next. The thing that makes Pearl a funny kind of place is all that whispering we hear coming up from the ground. |
Selected WorksFiction
Killing Color
Stories that explore the nuances of history, race, sex,and class. Novel
touch
Rayna Sargent is a thirty-five-year-old painter who falls in love with Theodore, a handsome, Renaissance man, shortly before she receives the diagnosis that she is HIV positive. One Dark Body
Set in Pearl, WA., this novel is the story of reconcilation between Raisin, a twelve-year-old girl abandoned at birth and Nola, the woman who left her behind. It is also the story of fourteen-year-old Sin-Sin who is initiated into the rituals of manhood, by Blue, the town's healer. |
