Bonds of Love & Blood
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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. At home and abroad, solitary travelers embark on journeys that take them where they never expected to go.
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.
Read Bonds of Love & Blood to embark on a heart-wrenching journey of love, loss, and redemption today!
"MacDonald applies insight, power, and delicacy to create characters between whom the psychic space virtually sizzles." --FOREWORD REVIEWS
"engrossing"--MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW
"With elegant prose enlivened by shards of mean humor, MacDonald captures how hard it is to love and/or trust abroad or at home."--KIRKUS REVIEWS
"Author Marylee MacDonald has done an absolutely masterful job of presenting her readers with short stories so beautifully written that the characters will stay in your mind long after the story, and indeed the book, is done."--READERS' FAVORITE
"In her collection of twelve brilliantly-written short stories, MacDonald explores the pain and beauty of human relationships. MacDonald's writing is raw and visceral, creating a strong emotional connection between her characters and the reader."--US REVIEW OF BOOK
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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