train leper glimmer stories

books:

Glimmer Train Stories, #58
Karen Regen-Tuero; Doug Crandell; Mark Wisniewski; Juan Martinez; Paul Michel; Cristina Henriquez; Paula Nangle; Jonathan Wei; Mark Sanders; Susan Messer; Lesley Dormen; David Kear; R.K. Scher; Evan Kuhlman; Matthew Sharpe; Siobhan Dowd

Glimmer Train Press, Inc., 2006

Literary short stories. A feast of fiction!

The Leper Compound

3 reviews
Paula Nangle

Bellevue Literary Press, 2008

An excellent debut
Paula Nangle's debut novel, The Leper Compound, is a book I won't soon forget. I'm tempted to call it a novel-in-stories as each chapter is perfectly self-contained and yet the whole does provide one full narrative. Regardless, it is a brilliant effort. The book starts out with Colleen as a motherless child ill with Malaria and ends with the death of her father and with her mentally ill ...