Payson Heights has been selected as a finalist for the 2007 Allbooks Review Editor's Choice award for fiction. When a migrant worker and his wife yearn to provide their children with a better life in America, they do all they can to make it w...

This is the story about a small group of people who are in front of us fourteen to eighteen years of our lives. This is a story about teachers. We think we know them, but mostly all we know is an image. Set in a suburban high school, the story foc...

On her eighth birthday, Anita witnesses the rape and murder of her mother. Thus begins a series of events that will forever alter her life. In the years following her mother's death, Anita suffers more indignities and pain. After her seventeenth b...