The Talker: Stories

Winner of the 2017 Southwest Books of the Year Award in Fiction

"The heart in these stories beats out of its chest.... "
--BRADEN HEPNER

From security guards and jack rabbits to bartenders and blue herons, the desert-dwellers in The Talker surface with grit and grace from dust-blown trailers and ancient Joshua trees. With her signature down-to-earth storytelling style and uniquely empathetic eye, Sojourner writes a community seeking refuge, truth, and escape within the desert glare of the Mojave.

Author: Mary Sojourner
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Published: 03/14/2017
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781937226695
ISBN10: 1937226697
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Westerns | General

About the Author
MARY SOJOURNER is the author of the novels, 29, Sisters of the Dream and Going Through Ghosts; the short story collections The Talker and Delicate; an essay collection, Bonelight: Ruin and Grace in the New Southwest; and memoirs, Solace: Rituals of Loss and Desire and She Bets Her Life. She is an intermittent NPR commentator and the author of many essays, columns and op-eds for High Country News, Writers on the Range, and other publications. A graduate of the University of Rochester, Sojourner teaches writing in private circles, one-on-one, at colleges and universities, writing conferences, and book festivals. She believes in both the limitations and possibilities of healing through writing--the most powerful tool she has found for doing what is necessary to mend. She lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.