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"River Jordan writes with the lyricism and grace of a gospel hymn, and the tales that weave through Sugar Baby ring like the chorus of a choir, rising and falling and then rising again, like all good sinners do." -Michael Farris Smith, author of Nick and Blackwood
A union soldier who deserted, a scared girl in an abandoned, antebellum home, a gravedigger looking for a wife, seven sisters who will kill to protect each other, a stake-out at a rundown hotel, a Spanish priest trying to save his people from the Spanish flu, a young girl sneaking off with an encyclopedia salesman, an old woman aiming to use her last bullet. a woman framed for murder on All Saints Day.
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The characters in Short Baby and Other Stories are infused by desire, touched by love, seeking retribution and redemption at every turn. Sugar Baby is storytelling of the highest order, plucking up the reader and transporting them to a world of mystery, spirituality, violence, love, and everything in between.”
River Jordan is an established literary figure, speaker, teacher, and radio host. Her work has been featured by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, NPR's Book Talk, Guideposts Magazine, and the Southern Literary Review. She is the author of four novels and three spiritual memoirs. Her work is most frequently compared to Flannery O’Connor, Harper Lee, and William Faulkner and Paste Magazine wrote that her novel Saints In Limbo was a “southern gothic masterpiece.”