Fishing the Sloe-Black River
- 208 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Set in Ireland and America, the twelve gems in this award-winning volume are tales of exile, loss, love, and displacement. The characters--oddballs and outcasts, misfits and travelers--are all in search of a way back home, or a way to leave it--from the anorexic nun who ends her days in a Long Island convent hospital to the weathered boxing champ fond of stealing clothes from a New Orleans laundromat..