"Raymond's prose often lights up the poetry-circuits of the brain, less because of lyrical language and more due to things that work as both literal and symbolic nouns: stolen rings, voice-mail messages gone astray; heavy-footed humans in the middle of fragile habitats."
— The Seattle Times
— The Seattle Times
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This excerpt comprises the first several pages of the story "First Sunday," winner of the Indiana Review Fiction Prize and originally published in Indiana Review.
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