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“Hot damn, this is a powerhouse debut. Leigh Camacho Rourks deserves a hallowed
space on the shelf between Flannery O'Connor and Donald Ray Pollock.”

—Benjamin Percy

Moon Trees and Other Orphans is a gritty collection of short stories set along the Gulf Coast, focusing on themes of desperation, loneliness, and love. Filled with hard-living characters who are deeply lonely, it tracks the ways they fight for survival, often making very bad decisions as they go. Populated by gun toting women, ex-cons, desperate teens, and other outsiders, it is a collection about what life is like in hard places, both beautiful and dangerous.

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“Hot damn, this is a powerhouse debut. Leigh Camacho Rourks deserves a hallowed
space on the shelf between Flannery O'Connor and Donald Ray Pollock.”

—Benjamin Percy

More info →

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