Me, Margarita: Stories John Loren Sandford it is refreshing to look

it is refreshing to look back to the early twentieth century when at least a few people were certain that there are universal rules for good art and also that they had themselves mastered these precepts and could pass them on to a society that loved commonly held values

minorities such as the Hmong sway the direction of history

came together to renew the lost art of basket sewing

not to mention the countless cases - both claimed and "verified" - of miraculous healing this supernatural town is teeming with

Me, Margarita: Stories John Loren Sandford it is refreshing to lookShort stories about men and women, love and hate, sex and disappointment, cynicism and hope perhaps unique in that none of the stories reveal the time or place in they occur: the world is too small now for it to matter. A disillusioned woman, the narrator doesn't mince words about the imperfection of her life, her relationships, her prospects; yet what might in other hands seem discouraging is presented with such humor the reader can't help but feel