These powerful, edgy stories explore love and estrangement between daughters and mothers, siblings, and spouses. Inclán's characters stretch the outer bounds of family responsibility, creating burdens they never dreamed of.
Jessica Barksdale is the author of twelve traditionally published novels, including Her Daughter's Eyes and When You Believe. Her thirteenth, How to Bake a Man, is forthcoming October 2014 from Ghostwoods Books. Her short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in Compose, Salt Hill Journal, The Coachella Review, Carve Magazine, Storyacious, Mason's Road, and So to Speak. She is a professor of English at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California and teaches online novel writing for UCLA Extension.
