“As if to say it’s risky, unknowable business, this living we do. As if to say all the fragile creatures of Boggs’s world—parents, children, husbands, and wives—dodge what dangers they can to survive in the midst of their aching loneliness. Sometimes they find grace.”
Stacy Muszynski reviews Belle Boggs’s Bakeless Prize-winning Mattaponi Queen.
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