**Three friends. One Game. Who will survive?** After surviving a knife attack in London, Rik Slater moves with his pregnant wife, Becky, to what he hopes is the safety of Little Winchcombe. A simple game of rock, paper, scissors changes Rik's life forever as he and two friends unwittlngly unleash
The Curse of the Gypsy: Ten Stories and a Novella
✍ Scribed by Alicia Gaspar de Alba
- Book ID
- 110708315
- Publisher
- Arte Público Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English, Spanish
- Weight
- 988 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781518504938
- ASIN
- B07DNH9NW2
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✦ Synopsis
Lambda Award-winning novelist Alicia Gaspar de Alba returns with a collection of ten interrelated stories--or a deconstructed novel--that follow the descendants of a gypsy woman impregnated by Federico García Lorca and a novella that retells an ancient legend about the first bearded female saint of the Catholic Church, St. Wilgefortis.
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