Keeping Her Difficult Balance

In this short story from the "stunning" collection More of this World, Maybe Another, a woman is about to marry a man she grew up with (Dorothy Allison, award-winning author of Bastard Out of California).

The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile heroes of the American underclass redefine our notions of family, redemption, and love. Keeping Her Difficult Balance is the story of one of these characters.

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