Cherma

About this book

Jacqueline West’s poetry has appeared in journals including St. Ann’s Review, Inkwell Journal, Pebble Lake Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Barnwood, and Briar Cliff Review, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her series for young readers, The Books of Elsewhere (Dial), debuted in summer 2010. She lives with her husband in Red Wing, Minnesota.Excerpt:StepanekAfter all those Sunday dinnersGrandma would heave her chairback from the table,set her napkin delicatelyon the untouched forkbeside the plate heaped highwith skin and scrapsand explain to the gathered family:"It looks like I ate a lof of shicken,but it was really all bones."