PreviewsKatherine Lawrence

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  Black Umbrella

  Katherine Lawrence

  This poetry collection – in vows and curses, love poems and elegies – follows a life through childhood, middle age, and into the older years, exploring the complexities of marriage, infidelity, and the mother-daughter relationship with clear-eyed courage.

  (Turnstone Press, $18.00 Paperback, 106 pages, ISBN: 978-08-88017-47-5)  

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  Stay

  Katherine Lawrence

  This novel in verse tells the story of a family in crisis, through the thoughts and actions of 11-year-old Millie, whose parents decide to separate. When her father moves back home, she is elated until she finds out he’s back because he has been diagnosed with cancer.

  (Shadowpaw Press Reprise, $12.95 Paperback, 132 pages, ISBN: 978-19-89398-37-1)