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Nine short stories, all about people living on the margins of society.
1.A shoeshine boy in Cuzco Peru hears a cry for help in the night and later solves a murder
2.a child lost on the boardwalk on Venice Beach and a homeless Viet Nam Vet find and help each other
3.A woman who has raised her sons alone takes in a foster child
4.Danny, drunk and homeless in the city finds and cares for Joe who ran away from an institution for the developmentally disabled
5.A woman observes interactions on the #15 bus and is left to wonder what happened to one vulnerable young woman
6.Another incident on that infamous #15 bus
7.A w | |  | | Stillbird
From a midwife perceived to be a witch and strangled in 1880s Scotland through the tragedies of domestic violence and incest in West Virginia this is the mythic story of 5 generations.
Described by Jennifer Heath as "an epic in less than 200 pages" this is a story of the cycle of violence against women that begins with the sons of a midwife who is strangled on suspicion of witchcraft and moves through 5 generations, 2 world wars and the depression in West Virginia and follows the final character as she moves with the family for whom she works as a nanny to Denver on the eve of the sixties. Valerie Miner said this: "Stillbird has the resonance of an epic tale and the immediacy of a gripping storyline. Sanchez reveals an acute sense of place and season | |  | | Three Novellas
Three Novellas, three journeys, three themes, Last Long Walk of Noah Brown, The King and the Clockmaker and The Vast Darkness
Noah Brown is a called "retarded", described differently by a friend as "too innocent for a guilty world" and he loves to walk. Begins his journey in 1965 from Annapolis, Md. to a commune on the other side of the state where he builds a canoe which he carries with him on his journey through the south ending in NOLA where in 2005 he finally fulfilles his destiny to save people during the great flood. The King and the Clockmaker starts where the legend of the fate of the maker of the great astronomical clock in Prague leaves off and examines the nature of time as wel |
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