Preloading

The Secret Habit of Sorrow

By Victoria Patterson

Publisher: Counterpoint
Pages: 224

These stories exquisitely capture fate's cruel ironies—as when a woman desperate for a child finally gets one after her sister drowns, leaving her 8-year-old in need of a mother.

— Michelle Hart

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