California Works: Stories

Winner of the Selena McDonald Kennedy Fiction Award. Includes Gallopers which was awarded the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction.Meet the men and women who dwell on the far side of the California Dream: a war vet who rustles cactus near Palm Springs a teenager living in the shadow of Disneyland about to be pulled into the draft a Hollywood actress on the run from a violent past a North Coast fisherman whose marriage founders when his son is lost at sea. Spare but lyrical these beautiful tales of love loss and redemption where place is as much a character as the people take readers on an unforgettable journey along the deep river of the human spirit.