Set in an unnamed country sometime in the past, present or future, one woman tries desperately to hold her family together while civil war rages around her. Penelope and her 14 children live atop a landfill in a small, war-torn country. Her husband and eldest son have been drafted, each by opposing factions in the war, leaving Penelope and her remaining children desolate and nearly starving as they scavenge for scrap.When Hermes, the government scrap collector, makes unreasonable demands, Penelope fights back and is arrested, leading her on a journey to the heart of the tip.
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Ron Tanner's awards for fiction include a Faulkner Society gold medal, a Pushcart Prize, a New Letters Award first prize, a Best of the Web Award, and many others. He has won fellowships from the Copernicus Society, Sewanee Writers Conference, and the National Park Service, to name a few, and his stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines, including The Iowa Review, West Branch, and the Quarterly. His collection of stories, A Bed of Nails, won both the G.S. Sharat Chandra award and the Towson Prize for Literature and is now in its second printing. He teaches writing at Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland.
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