Bonds of Love and Blood: Short Stories - Softcover

MacDonald, Marylee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1732078734 ISBN 13: 9781732078734

Publisher: Grand Canyon Press, 2018

Synopsis

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. Buy Bonds of Love & Blood to embark on a heart-wrenching journey of love, loss, and redemption today!

About this title

About the Author:

Marylee MacDonald has taught fiction for the Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University and been Writer-in-Residence for the City of Mesa Public Library. She has a Master's in Creative Writing from San Francisco State, and in her free time, loves to visit historic sites, do detective work in European archives, and camp in the desert.
Her short stories have won the Jeanne Leiby Chapbook Award, the Barry Hannah Prize, the Ron Rash Award, the Matt Clark Prize, and the ALR Fiction Award. She is widely published in literary magazines such as American Literary Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Folio, Blue Moon Literary & Art Review, Broad River Review, Folio, Four Quarters, New Delta Review, North Atlantic Review, Raven Chronicles, Reunion: The Dallas Review, River Oak Review, Ruminate, StoryQuarterly, Superstition Review, The Briar Cliff Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Yalobusha Review, and the anthologies ROLL and NEW SUN RISING: Stories for Japan.
BONDS OF LOVE & BLOOD was a Finalist for the Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Awards, a Silver Medalist in the Readers' Favorites International Book Awards, and a Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Prize.

Review:

"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 BOOKS

"BONDS OF LOVE & BLOOD is brilliantly written and nothing less than emotive."--HOLLYWOOD BOOK REVIEWS

"Poignant, honest,and compelling... Highly recommended."--PACIFIC BOOK REVIEW

"MacDonald dares to question which is the greater, more unsettling risk: the alluring intimacy of foreign terrains, or the intimate dangers of domesticity?"
--Tara Ison, author of Reeling Through Life and Child out of Alcatraz

"Her characters remind us of our universal and contradictory longing for solitude and for connection. Savor this book. Enjoy being in the hands of a generous and visionary writer."
--Eileen Favorite, author of The Heroines

"These elegantly crafted stories brim with emotional wisdom and eloquence. Bearing you around the world, they will imprint themselves, deeply, indelibly, upon your heart."
--Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Canyon Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1732078734
• ISBN 13: 9781732078734
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242