Mules
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Bloodied and burned by the Arizona sun, stroked and nearly dead, Emilie stumbles out of the desert and onto the Kate Stanger mule ranch. Emilie has killed a man. Once healed, Emilie knows she should keep running if she wants to save herself. But Kate and the people of Bisbee take her in, knowing nothing about her past, caring only about who she is-and could be-to them now. Like the Stanger mules, the people she meets in this mining town are more than they appear to be, living lives that are a constant re-summing of fate, circumstance, and choice. Emilie comes to know who they really are, even as she hides from them who she really is, and what she has done. Until the mother of the man she killed arrives at the ranch.
David Gordon
David Gordon was born in New York City and later attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia, where he received an MA in English and Comparative Literature and an MFA in Writing. He has worked in film, fashion, publishing, and pornography. His first novel, The Serialist, won the VCU Cabell First Novel Award, was an Edgar Award finalist, and was made into a major motion picture in Japan. Gordon’s work has also appeared in the Paris Review, the New York Times, Purple, and Fence, among other publications.
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