Mail-order Bride

By Sara Baker

A glimpse of a mysterious woman at a suburban pool opens a door into a middle-aged woman’s erotic life. In an encounter with a witch-like creature on a desolate Irish island, an American lawyer’s assumptions about her life are unexpectedly upended. And when a sick woman’s presence disrupts a happy summer afternoon swim, a young mother must confront her own surprising reactions. Three masterful, lyrical stories exploring the complex inner lives of contemporary American women by Sara Baker, author of the highly-praised debut novel, The Timekeeper’s Son.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sara Baker
• Release date: Mar 14, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370462681

Sara Baker

Sara Baker’s fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Cleaver, Confrontation, H.O.W. Journal, The China Grove Journal, The Intima.com, The Examined Life Journal, The New Quarterly, The Lullwater Review and other venues, and has been shortlisted for the Bridport and Fish contests. Her poetry has been published in Stone, River, Sky: An Anthology of Georgia Poems, The 2011 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine The Apalachee Review, The Healing Muse, Ars Medica, and in her chapbook, Brancusi’s Egg, from Finishing Line Press. Her novel, The Timekeeper’s Son, was published by Deeds Publishing November 2016. Her screenplay, One of Us, was a finalist in the CineStory screenplay contest, and her radio play A Wagner Matinee, was aired on BBC Radio and NPR. She has been a fellow at the Hambidge Center, and has received scholarships to the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. She has an M.A. in English from Boston College. After fifteen years of teaching at the university level, she developed and taught a writing workshop for cancer patients in an outpatient clinic. You can read her thoughts about writing and healing at Word Medicine, www.saratbaker.wordpress.com.

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