![]() ![]() ![]() There are many versions of hell in Heartbroke and many kinds of evil flourishing in them. ![]() "My ma says it's the deepest hole in hell," he says. Boots sees the unrelenting heat as a blessing from God, sees the sun as a "natural fire in our sky" that plumps and then wrinkles the grapes he grows and turns by hand. "The sun shines here in a special way.Beats harder and stronger than anywhere else in the world," says Boots, the narrator of "Raisin Man," to his illegitimate son Sims, a boy he loves but cannot parent. In Chelsea Bieker's short story collection Heartbroke, the Central Valley of California shimmers at the edges with heat, desire, and desperation. ![]()
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