Trouble Will Save You

Trouble Will Save YouIn these three deeply observed novellas, award winning author David Nikki Crouse dramatizes the lives of women living in Interior Alaska. Each novella acts as an extended meditation on grief, loss, and the nature of imagination. Crouses usual storytelling gifts are on full display here, but the darkness found in past short story collections is balanced by images of stark beauty. In Misfortune and Its Double, a woman remembersand manufacturesthe story

A fascinating collection about Buddhist women translated from the thirteenth-century Sinhala Buddhist text

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when he first laid eyes on the daughter of King Helmas

and in some cases required

especially their children

a former pitcher returns home to make a life or death family decision

Still a bachelor

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Hall maintains that although issues of love and justice became prominent comparatively late in Ricoeur's corpus

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he finds himself enlisted to help rescue the captives on an illegal slave ship