PRAISE FOR THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF THE HANDICAPPED:

'.irreverent.vibrant.sensitive without ever approaching sanctimony."- Publisher's Weekly , starred review

'It's a wonderful book!"-Bill Holm, Minnesota Author of The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth

' Worldwide Church is an absolute joy."-Anne Lamott, author of Traveling Mercies and Bird by Bird

'This is a wonderful book."-Dave Wood, Minneapolis Star-Tribune

'It is one of the most important books of our time."-Carol Bly, author of Changing the Bully Who Rules the World , and winner of the Minnesota Book Award

'I have not, in long time, read stories that affected me so much."-Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States

"[Williams'] characters are unique and unforgettable.This is a disarming, disturbing book."-Maxine Kumin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

PRAISE FOR THE WEEKEND GIRL:

'Read these stories and be changed.Marie Sheppard Williams is an original and necessary voice in American Fiction."-Frederick Smock, former editor of The American Voice

'.tender stories.deliciously simple dialogue.sly humor.and you suddenly know you are reading about life and death."-Howard Zinn

' The Weekend Girl and other stories is a compelling and poignant brew of wisdom, humor, and compassion."-Ronald Spatz, editor, Alaska Quarterly Review

'As Walt Whitman might have said: 'Who touches this book touches a [wo]man.'"-Bill Holm