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Acts
of Love on Indigo Road: New and Selected Stories
Stories
by Jonis Agee
In
this stellar collection, Jonis Agee explores all the
detours on the crooked road of love.
No
one is better than Jonis Agee at capturing the bone-deep
desire and big-eyed longing of a hardscrabble, small-town
life. This major collection, highlighting Agee's astonishing
literary achievements, includes powerful new stories
and a comprehensive selection from her critically acclaimed
books Pretend We've Never Met, Bend This Heart,
A .38 Special and a Broken Heart, and Taking
the Wall.
Jonis
Agee's stories are as broad as their landscape, spanning
the Great Lakes and traveling through the Great Plains
on a straight shot to the heart. The New York Times
refers to Agee's short fiction as the "… clear-eyed
reports of someone who sees things as they are, not
as she would wish them to be" and each story in
this collection is raw, deeply memorable, and dedicated
to brutally introspective and truthful moments.
In
Acts of Love on Indigo Road, Agee's characters
continue to dream big and love deep while rushing headlong
into the awareness that, finally, there are "only
the dead to bear witness to what acts of love can do
to the world."
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