The Paper Boy & The Winter War

"Winter hangs heavy over these pages-where silence wounds, memory endures, and small wars are fought in kitchens, backyards, and broken hearts."

In West Lake, snow forts become battlements and a paper route turns into a theater of war.
Set in the feral 1980s and the fragile present, these stories give voice to half-wild kids, caregivers at the edge of exhaustion, grandmothers faithful to soap operas, and fathers sealed inside survival globes.

With sentences that land fast and leave a bruise,...