From WILLA Finalist and LAURA Award winner, Lucinda Stein, comes this diverse collection of stories about women who struggle. From a runaway girl to a contemporary young woman with a lost career to a traditional woman of the 1880s who turns rogue, these tales range in time and place but all tell the story of women overcoming adversity.

Native American culture infuses Dry Run, Oklahoma with a unique perspective to the Depression. A young Comanche girl is thrown into a world she despises when she's forced to attend a boarding school far from home. Later as a young woman, Belle Tahsuda begins a desperate search for her best friend from Chilocco Indian School. Her journey includes hitching a ride with a surprising outlaw and hopping a freight train with a young hobo. Once reunited, Flora finds Belle employment at the tuberculosis sanatorium where she works. Belle falls into an impetuous marriage that proves to be a disaster. A...