BELLE BOGGS - Debuts With MATTAPONI QUEEN: STORIES

07/15/2010 7:30 pm

Join us as Pittsboro author Belle Boggs presents her debut book, MATTAPONI QUEEN:STORIES.  These understated, richly varied, linked stories set on and around the Mattaponi Indian reservation in Virginia feature small surprises on every page.

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Mattaponi Queen: Stories (Paperback)

By Belle Boggs
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781555975586
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Graywolf Press, 5/2010
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Winner of the 2009 Bakeless Fiction Prize, a confident debut collection about life on and around the Mattaponi Indian Reservation

Set on the Mattaponi Indian Reservation and in its surrounding counties, the stories in this linked collection detail the lives of rural men and women with stark realism and plainspoken humor. A young military couple faces a future shadowed by injury and untold secrets. A dying alcoholic attempts to reconcile with his estranged children. And an elderly woman’s nurse weathers life with her irascible charge by making payments on a decrepit houseboat—the Mattaponi Queen. The land is parceled into lots, work opportunities are few, and the remaining inhabitants must choose between desire and necessity as they navigate the murky stream of possession, love, and everything in between.

Location: 
Street:
Quail Ridge Books & Music
Additional:
3522 Wade Ave
City:
Raleigh
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Province:
North Carolina
Postal Code:
27607-4048
Country:
United States