Somewhere a Phone Is Ringing: Collected Stories of Nancy Bourne

The 37 stories in this collection were published during Nancy Bourne's last decade—from 73 until she died in 2021 at 82 (the last one published posthumously, in 2022). The settings and human predicaments range from the pre-civil rights South to a juvenile detention facility in the San Francisco Bay Area. Characters in many of Nancy's stories find it hard to interpret or transmit messages about their own or others' inner feelings and needs. Their messages may be scrambled by differences in s...