![]() ![]() In “Tongues,” a tensile power struggle between a teenager and the emotionally brutal, restrictive religious patriarchy of her family and their pastor sends her on a journey to unwrap her truest self. ![]() The title story deals with two friends on the cusp of adolescence, one Black and the other White, as they embrace their inner wildness until tragedy befalls one of them. In “The Hearts of Our Enemies,” Frankie navigates the rockiness between herself and her teenage daughter, Margot, after she tells her husband about her almost-infidelity and he moves out then she finds a note in Margot’s jeans that leads her to discover how far she will go to protect her child against an insidious predator. Each story vibrates with a thrumming undercurrent of primal power, found in both nature and in the most shadowy parts of ourselves. ![]() The feminine is sublime throughout these stories, featuring girls and women who are submerged in loss, love, death, temptation, and the cruelty and benevolence of motherhood, two sides of the same coin. This powerful debut collection is a wonderland of deep female characters navigating their lives against the ever changeable backdrop of Florida. ![]()
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