Love to the Spirits
by Stephen March
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The sixteen stories in Love to the Spirits are told from a remarkable variety of perspectives, exploring our society with humor, insight, and a touch of the absurd. The collection opens with a twelve-year-old girl and her grandfather hustling pool in West Texas and ends with two feuding brothers in a rickety airplane off North Carolina's Outer Banks, reunited to spread their mother's ashes. In between, a gravedigger is baffled by a body that mysteriously resurfaces after storms; a musician show more with a stolen mule seeks refuge in his estranged wife's backyard; and a dying con man sells his "service" to the residents of a nursing home-a promise to convey messages to their departed loved ones. Unifying these stories is a common theme: the characters' struggles to complete perilous passages in their lives, across a span of ice dangerously thin. They make their journeys with subtle, often comic, grace. Book jacket. show lessTags
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A graduate of both the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he earned an M.F.A. in creative writing, Stephen March is a professor of English at Elizabeth City State University in Elizabeth City, North Carolina
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- Love to the Spirits
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- IPPY (Short Story Fiction, 2005)
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