The Aching and Other Stories

The Aching and Other Stories is a collection of ten stories about girls and women navigating grief, friendship, illness, motherhood, disappointment, danger, and displacement. Sometimes these displacements are physical: traveling abroad, moving back home, or even having one’s house unwillingly relocated. These displacements can also be emotional: tangled in a foreign language, confronting mortality, or stumbling between adolescence and adulthood. The Aching and Other Stories balances sorrow with humor, connects character with place, and conjures sharp, surprising imagery.