Set in 1940s Florida, Middle America, Hollywood in the 70s, curious netherspheres between life and death, and deep inside the imaginations of characters whose greatest abundances are their emotions, the ten stories in Cummings's eclectic collection ORPHANS evoke familiar and strange scenarios of love and loss, heartbreak and humor, spirituality and sexuality, and the quelling of violence. An unhappy housewife...
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