"In the South there are a lot of secrets, some of them unconscious. It's the tension these secrets create that makes this place ripe for storytelling". Growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Betsy Cox could look out the window of her bedroom and see across the Tennessee River, beyond Williams Island, and into the gliding series of mountains that form the eastern range of the Appalachians. The view so inspired her that it later became a metaphor for her life. "The river taught me how to move, the island taught me how to be ...
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"In the South there are a lot of secrets, some of them unconscious. It's the tension these secrets create that makes this place ripe for storytelling". Growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Betsy Cox could look out the window of her bedroom and see across the Tennessee River, beyond Williams Island, and into the gliding series of mountains that form the eastern range of the Appalachians. The view so inspired her that it later became a metaphor for her life. "The river taught me how to move, the island taught me how to be alone, and the mountains taught me how to remain". Bargains in the Real World is a collection of stories that are driven by the effort to see behind the choices made by ordinary people. The characters struggle with a complex mixture of kindness and violence, and their decisions reveal a flawed but compassionate humanity. The stories explore the way the bargains we make affect our ability to become deeply, profoundly human.
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