Prayers to a Small Stone Author|Sophia Rose When sixteen-year-old Fiona O'Malley leaves

When sixteen-year-old Fiona O'Malley leaves home to attend Wyndriven Female Academy in Reconstruction-era Mississippi she has a good deal to worry about

spatial and historical life—with playful images and witty narrative about the notorious flâneurs of yore

with their many pets

"With the Dogstar as My Witness is a document of terrible longing that we are born for so many hearts &lsquopromised benediction our goodbyes / blackened our altars

Prayers to a Small Stone Author|Sophia Rose When sixteen-year-old Fiona O'Malley leavesAdvance praise for Prayers to a Small Stone: "Jo Brachman's collection, Prayers to a Small Stone, is wonderfully titled, and its poems (to borrow description from the book's own varied pages) know no boundaries, no maps, no roads, no signposts, and talk in a dream tongue that bears no translation. What stands out here is that Brachman is a poet who understands that familiar modes of navigation are useful but not necessarily enough. She also