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and coming together

their families

time spent in recovery—from a broken leg

the 50th anniversary edition of Water Bugs and Dragonflies includes the original magazine article from 1970 as well as a second article she wrote about her own cancer diagnosis

" which King wrote in April of 1963

For Want of Water cid_6588 and coming togetherEl Paso is one of the safest cities in the United States, while across the river, Ciudad Jurez suffers a history of femicides and a horrific drug war. Witnessing this, a Filipinas life unravels as she tries to love an addict, the murders growing just a citybut the breadth of a countryaway. This collection weaves the personal with recent history, the domestic with the tragic, asking how much a body will hold, reaching from the border to the poets own