Short Stories spotlight

What the Tide Owes

by Marisol Vega

Eleven stories about debts that were never written down.

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Synopsis

Eleven coastal stories, each about an obligation nobody put in writing and nobody has forgotten.

The collection that announced Vega's preoccupations: water, inheritance, and the arithmetic of family loyalty.

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