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    The Widow Smalls and other Stories

    By Jamie Lisa Forbes

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    Thirty years of browbeating from rancher Bud Smalls has penned his wife, Leah, into emotional isolation. Now Bud is gone and Leah owns the ranch, but there is no help forthcoming from Bud’s brothers who want to force her out and take the ranch for themselves. When their attempt to humiliate her instead becomes her opportunity to succeed, Leah begins to find her way back to herself and learns how much she can gain by opening her heart.
    The Widow Smalls is just one of the stories in this collection by the WILLA Award winning author of Unbroken, Jamie Lisa Forbes, who writes about the hardships of making a living from the land with an understanding that comes from first-hand experience. Her deftly drawn characters include star-crossed lovers, a young rancher facing his first test of moral courage, an inscrutable ranch hand claiming an impressive relative, a father making one last grasp for his daughter’s love and a child’s struggle to make sense of the world around her. Each will pull readers into the middle of their stories and keep them turning the pages.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPronghorn Press
    Release dateApr 1, 2015
    ISBN9781941052068
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    Jamie Lisa Forbes

    Jamie Lisa Forbes was raised on a family ranch in southeastern Wyoming. She graduated from the University of Colorado with honors in 1977 and then lived in Israel until 1979, when she returned to her family’s ranch and raised her own family over the next fifteen years. Today, she writes and practices law in Greensboro, North Carolina. She enjoys spending time with her grandsons and playing old time Appalachian fiddle. With her Arabian horse, Cody, and her cattle dog, Reb, she still devotes part of her life to the outdoors.

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      Award-winning author Jamie Lisa Forbes is a wonderful storyteller whose work I discovered through her debut novel, "Unbroken". Now, with "The Widow Smalls and Other Stories", she gifts us with a collection of short stories that resonate with memorable characters and compelling story lines. You will greatly enjoy "Ramona Dietz", "Lincoln's Nephew", "His Mild Yoke", "Crack-the-Whip", "The Good War", and "The Widow Smalls". The writer's own life experiences of growing up on a ranch add authentic atmosphere to each tale. The characters are well-defined, warts-and-all, and they are oh-so-readable as they encounter their own personal scenarios. The ranch culture, the land, and the weather are characters themselves, propelling destinies in an age-old rhythm to which humans and animals must do the dance. Highly recommended--be sure to also read "Unbroken".Book Copy Gratis Author