MARY SOJOURNER
MARY SOJOURNER is the author of 29: A Novel, Delicate: Stories of Light and Desire, Bonelight: Ruin and Grace in the New Southwest, and memoirs Solace: Rituals of Loss and Desire and She Bets Her Life. She is a frequent book reviewer for her local NPR station and the author of many essays, columns, and op-eds for High Country News, Writers on the Range, and other publications. A graduate of the University of Rochester, Sojourner teaches writing in private circles, one-on-one, at colleges and universities, writing conferences, and book festivals. She believes in both the limitations and possibilities of healing through writing—the most powerful tool she has found for doing what is necessary to mend. She lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.
BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
THE TALKER
Stories
From security guards and jack rabbits to bartenders and blue herons, the desert-dwellers in The Talker surface with grit and grace from dust-blown trailers and ancient Joshua trees. With her signature down-to-earth storytelling style and uniquely empathetic eye, Sojourner writes a community seeking refuge, truth, and escape within the desert glare of the Mojave.
"Sojourner uses passion, high-energy storytelling, and unflinching empathy to break the reader’s heart."
29
A Novel
Nell Walker, an L.A. executive who believed she had everything and learns she had nothing, finds herself boarding a bus rolling away from bitter loss toward a fiercely beautiful landscape, an impossible love affair, and a fight for the earth that brings her back to a past richer than anything she could have imagined.
“This standout ecological novel from Arizona author Sojourner features picturesque prose, a vivid western setting, and sharply drawn characters.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)