No Man Came

<p class=ql-align-justify><em>No Man Came</em> is the short story of a woman faced with a terrible choice. Inheriting love pain and a haunting warning from her Mammy she grows into a fateful relationship with herself and others especially her relationship with men. She begins her story in a thick vernacular voice a voice as rich and deep as the soil of her cultural roots. Naked raw and urgent <em>No Man Came</em> bleeds out its words with a surgical intensity that pierces the reader's emotional and spiritual womb. The peril and dire desperation this woman endures stick like summer cotton on the sharp seed hull. <em>No Man Came</em> is the story of a woman who waits. And waits. Until she can wait no longer. Finally she chooses.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Written when Jaiya John was 23 <em>No Man Came</em> is a rare taste of his earliest work revealing the nascency of a mystic storyteller who seems inhabited by endless souls. <strong>Limited edition hardcover exclusive.</strong></p>