The Boxford Stories: a Short Story Collection

Welcome to the world of the Runyons and the Feldsteds, two Mormon families in 1970s
Maryland. Far from their Western American roots, they cling to each other like exiles clutching a
precious box of topsoil from the old country.

In The Boxford Stories you will meet Ada Runyon who always turns to Ruthalin Feldsted when
she needs an ear—sharing her deepest confidences, her everyday musings, and her bits of
horrified gossip. Yet Ada dies inside whenever Ruthalin’s country-cousin manners poke out in
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