Acts of Love on Indigo Road: New and Selected Stories

By Jonis Agee

In this stellar collection, Jonis Agee explores all the detours on the crooked road of love.

No one is better than Jonis Agee at capturing the bone-deep desire and big-eyed longing of a hardscrabble, small-town life. This major collection, highlighting Agee's astonishing literary achievements, includes powerful new stories and a comprehensive selection from her critically acclaimed books Pretend We've Never Met, Bend This Heart, A .38 Special and a Broken Heart, and Taking the Wall.

Jonis Agee's stories are as broad as their landscape, spanning the Great Lakes and traveling through the Great Plains on a straight shot to the heart. The New York Times refers to Agee's short fiction as the "clear-eyed reports of someone who sees things as they are, not as she would wish them to be" and each story in this collection is raw, deeply memorable, and dedicated to brutally introspective and truthful moments.

In Acts of Love on Indigo Road, Agee's characters continue to dream big and love deep while rushing headlong into the awareness that, finally, there are "only the dead to bear witness to what acts of love can do to the world."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566891388
• ISBN13: 9781566891387
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 375 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

An impressive and extraordinary anthology

Acts Of Love On Indigo Road is an anthology of new and selected short stories by acclaimed author Jonis Agee that poignantly epitomize small-town life, and dealing with daily trials while striving for something more. Humble yet involving narratives fill the pages of this emotional and evocative collection. Acts Of Love On Indigo Road is an impressive and extraordinary anthology which is a "must read" for Jonis Agee fans and admirers.