The Of Love and Sound Mind short story collection brings us into the lives of wounded women and girls as they try to reconcile the collateral damage of mental illness, the psychic traumas of divorce, the makeup of hallucination, the echoes of unanswered grief, the crippling violence of family secrets and the trauma of embedded racism.

In What Happened, an eight year old girl bears frightened witness to her mother's first psychotic break.

In Things Happen, there's been an accident and Stella has to get to her husband. The problem? Stella's mother is damn...