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Nell, a washed-out executive, falls into an impossible affair and a battle over sacred Native American lands in Twentynine Palms.

Amid the harsh beauty of the contemporary Southwest, these stories explore lives of the down-and-out with uncanny grit and grace.

NPR commentator Sojourner delivers a powerful memoir about the joys of rejecting the pace, addictions, and false values of society and learning to live without compromise.

Maggie Foltz is a fifty-five-year-old cocktail waitress in a rundown casino in the southern Nevada Mojave Desert. She spends her days serving drinks to lonely old folks playing the slot machines and her nights trying to escape her bitter past. When she befriends Sarah, a young Native American woman, her life begins to change.

What sets "She Bets Her Life" apart is Mary Sojourner's ability to take both an objective and a deeply personal look at the psychological and physiological impact of gambling addiction on women. Having lived it, Sojourner is brutally forthcoming, and with her penchant for research and fact-finding, the narrative is teeming with important information and resources to help steer women with gambling addictions (and their loved ones) toward help a...

Mary Sojourner is a fiery activist, and her passion is contagious." -- Maxine Kumin, The Women's Review of Books"Sojourner is a pithy yet sensuous, spiritual yet ferocious writer who tackles love, aging, loneliness, our relationship with nature, and death with a tangy wit, hard-earned acumen, and generous affection for her fellow human beings." -- Booklist"The collection relates how a brave human faces aging with honesty and determination to t...

The lives of middle-aged women struggling with jobs and family, friendship and romance, are captured to perfection in this collection of humorous and touching stories set in the contemporary Southwest. Mary Sojourner writes about hardworking, hard-living, blue-collar women who fight quietly and fiercely to make their way in the world, find love and beauty, and hold on to their hopes. The heroines, most of them over forty, include single moms,...