Amber Gordon: 3 books

This is a retelling of the folktale La Llorona. in this version one horrible evening a desperate mother murders a child so that her dead daughter may cross over to the other side. This telling also includes a traditional version in which a mother kills her children to take revenge on her cheating...

A collection of four short pieces about what it was to be a woman. Not as in gender bending -- but as in life horrors. Told from different stages of life we are allowed to shadow She.

Weddings and Funerals is an exploration into the life of a young female from the South. It is set in the past and all of the chapters represent fragments of memories. These memories provide insight into what life is like for our heroine Maggie. She is unconventional and traditional when she needs...