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Backyard Volcano: And Other Mysteries of the Heart

Kathryn Lane

These stories help define the world of the Texas-Mexico Frontier--an explosive world where lives break, loves shatter, and healing happens. Kathryn Lane, a native of Mexico, explores this world, leading readers on a journey through time and geography with the promise of magic and transformation.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Alamo Bay Press
  • Publish Date: Apr 11st, 2017
  • Pages: 200
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.46in - 0.66lb
  • EAN: 9781943306046
  • Categories: Short Stories (single author)

About the Author

Lane, Kathryn: - Originally from Mexico, Kathryn Lane writes fiction inspired by Latin American cultures she experienced firsthand during her career as an international finance executive. Her debut novel, Waking Up in Medellin, was released by Pen-L Publishing in 2016 and will be followed up with a second novel in 2017. Kathryn's short stories have been published in Alamo Bay Writers Anthology; New Border Voices: An Anthology; Arriba Baseball!; and Swirl Literary Journal. She resides in The Woodlands, Texas, with her husband, Bob Hurt.

Praise for this book

Like an ancient volcano slowly belching up its past sins, this book takes you on a journey from the mountains of Mexico to the frontera of South Texas, each eruption a story leaving you scarred from past violences bleeding onto the current page. Pick up Kathryn Lane's book--it will fill you with heartache and sadness but also with a sense of the realities of living border lives like volcanos in the backyard....

--Christopher Carmona, author of The Road to Llorna Park and I Have Always Been Here