Friend, Foe, or Family

In this selection of ten short stories, Deborah Clark creates a community of characters and shared culture that, while part of the people, time and place of traditional Appalachia, also is set firmly in today's sensibilities. Each story features a women who is caugh up in her relationships - to her neighbors, her work, her family or her own spirituality - and is working through them, easing the efforts with humor and honesty.