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    Bonds of Love & Blood: Short Stories
    Bonds of Love & Blood: Short Stories
    Bonds of Love & Blood: Short Stories
    Audiobook9 hours

    Bonds of Love & Blood: Short Stories

    Written by Marylee MacDonald

    Narrated by Adam Barr

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    About this audiobook

    Twelve stories of wayward travelers. Twelve stamps on the passport of the soul. Walter struggles to see past his disfigurement, but a trip to Thailand and a mysterious woman may challenge his quest for perfection. Married to a workaholic, Leslie is accustomed to solitude until her overbearing Indian mother-in-law turns her kitchen into a verbal battlefield. A woman looks for the perfect souvenir in the Turkish Bazaar and instead finds a passionate love affair. From ice storms in Maine to swimming pools in Vera Cruz, errant souls must grapple with past baggage to forge profound connections and a new sense of direction. BONDS OF LOVE & BLOOD is a poignant collection of prize-winning stories featuring life’s unexpected arrivals and departures. If you like intimate accounts of lives at the crossroads, vibrant portrayals of global locales, and elegantly-crafted prose, then you’ll love Marylee MacDonald’s compelling tales of travel. Buy BONDS OF LOVE & BLOOD to embark on a heart-wrenching journey of love, loss, and redemption today!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGrand Canyon Press
    Release dateJul 7, 2020
    ISBN9781732078741
    Bonds of Love & Blood: Short Stories
    Author

    Marylee MacDonald

    Marylee MacDonald is the author of Bonds of Love & Blood, Montpelier Tomorrow, and The Rug Bazaar. She has taught at the Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University, and been Writer-in-Residence for the City of Mesa Public Library. Her fiction has won the Barry Hannah Prize, the ALR Fiction Award, the Ron Rash Award, the Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award, the Matt Clark Prize, a Gold Medal for Drama from the Readers’ Favorites International Book Awards, and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for Fiction. Her work has appeared in the American Literary Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Blue Moon Literary & Art Review, Broad River Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Folio, Four Quarters, NEW SUN RISING: Stories for Japan, North Atlantic Review, Raven Chronicles, Reunion, River Oak Review, ROLL, Ruminate, StoryQuarterly, Superstition Review, The Briar Cliff Review, Yalobusha Review, and others. She lives in Tempe, AZ. If you enjoy her books, please post a review on Amazon.com, Goodreads, and your favorite social media sites. Thank you!

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      Started reading the first exotic story and cannot put the book down. Best read in 2016. These stories set in various locations throughout the world explore the bleakness of the human heart.