“A badass writer if ever there was one.” -Kathy Fish, author of Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003-2018. Fans of Joy Williams and Raymond Carver will see their influence in these 38 short tales: A six-year-old beauty pageant contestant strives to please a demanding mother; bored wives fall under the romantic spell of a lobster; a woman is fat-shamed by her dead mother; a widow carries her husband’s ashes around in Baggies. With pathos and humor, Martin speaks to the reader's own wounded heart. From $2.99 SHOP NOW /