Tough Luck: A Novel Daniel Nayeri waste away in a sticky

waste away in a sticky licorice cage

move and live boundlessly

and Nikki Giovanni

richly imagined

he's found himself wanting more love than hate from her

Tough Luck: A Novel Daniel Nayeri waste away in a stickyIn this homage to True Grit, a young woman makes a perilous journey west in 1863 in search of her gold mining father. After their mother dies, Haidie Richards and her younger brother, Boots, are put to work in an orphanage. Their father left four years earlier to find a gold mine in Colorado Territory, and since then hes sent only three letters. Still, Haidie is certain that he is alive, has struck gold, and will soon send for them. But patience is