All the Living

Literary Fiction

Author: C.E. Morgan

One summer, a young woman travels with her lover to the isolated  tobacco farm he has inherited after his family dies in a terrible accident. As Orren works to save his family farm from drought, Aloma struggles with the loneliness of farm life and must find her way in a combative, erotically-charged relationship with a grieving, taciturn man. A budding friendship with a ha….Read More

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