Delicate Stories

The lives of middle-aged women struggling with jobs and family, friendship and romance, are captured to perfection in this collection of humorous and touching stories set in the contemporary Southwest.Mary Sojourner writes about hardworking, hard-living, blue-collar women who fight quietly and fiercely to make their way in the world, find love and beauty, and hold on to their hopes. The heroines, most of them over forty, include single moms, aging hippies, women newly awakening to the possibility of love, and women confronting their own mortality.

Mary Sojourner, now sixty-four, started writing at age forty-five. She is also the author of Solace: Rituals of Loss and Desire and is a contributor to NPR's Morning Edition. She teaches writing in Flagstaff, Arizona.