Judy Troy

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Mourning Doves: Stories

Judy Troy

Readers of The New Yorker know Judy Troy’s characters well—they’re small-town, blue-collar Americans, young and old, who look for romance at the Paradise Valley K-Mart, contemplate the universe in a trailer park, or go snake-shooting in the desert. Not much comes easily to them, even if life often holds surprises. Yet they endure, for the difficulties of just getting by in a world that sometimes seems beyond their control are offset by the healing power of love.

Together for the first time in Mourning Doves, their struggles are all the more poignant,…

 
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