If I Had Two Wings Hard-Boiled Mystery and creative originality

and creative originality

a town hall -- or just hoping to get through a family dinner with a stubborn relative -- dialogue shuts down when perspectives clash

The Island of Sea Women is a “beautiful story…about the endurance of friendship when it’s pushed to its limits

and rich with stories from life on the margins of American life

But with the strength of family and the guidance of key mentors on the streets and on the court

If I Had Two Wings Hard-Boiled Mystery and creative originalityLonglisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction Finalist for the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Mingling the earthy with the otherworldly, these ten stories chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives. In Kenans fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker. A retired plumber travels