Alex Peake-Tomkinson

Tales of the Midwest: The Collected Works of Jo Ann Beard, reviewed

Violence and death are balanced by hard-won, transcendent joy in Beard’s remarkable stories that merge fiction and memoir

Jo Ann Beard. [Franco Vogt] 
issue 12 August 2023
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