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Lee Anne Gallaway-Mitchell
The nine-year-old girl at the heart of Beth Alvarado’s new story collection was born knowing “everything she needs to know.”
Jillian in the Borderlands: A Cycle of Rather Dark Tales documents Jillian’s encounters with both the borderlands of the Sonoran desert and the borderlands of the living and the dead. Jillian, though equipped with omniscience and a rare knowledge of the past, does not speak. Her fiercely protective mother, Angie O’Malley, travels alongside her daughter as Jillian grows into an artist, mother, and activist. Mother and daughter are joined by a whole cast of characters including a healer and her channeling Chihuahua, a dying father making amends, an aunt with a traumatic brain injury, infant twin brothers who communicate in a language only they share, and a chorus of the “Demented Elderly” in a care home in northern Mexico.