SMFS list member Leslie Budewitz reported that her
latest book, All God’s Sparrows and Other Stories: A Stagecoach Mary
Fields Collection, was now out. Published by Beyond the Page Publishing, the book
is available at Amazon
and other vendors.
Amazon Description:
Born into slavery in
Tennessee, the remarkable “Stagecoach Mary” Fields was a larger-than-life
figure who cherished her independence, yet formed a deep bond with the Ursuline
Sisters, traveling to their Montana mission in 1885 and spending the last thirty
years of her life living there or in nearby Cascade. Mary is believed to have
been the first Black woman in the country to drive a U.S. Postal Star Route,
the source of her nickname.
In All God’s Sparrows and Other Stories, Agatha Award-winning author Leslie Budewitz brings together
three short stories, each originally published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, imagining the life of Stagecoach Mary in her first year in
Montana, and a novella exploring her later life, including:
All God’s Sparrows, winner of the 2018 Agatha Award for Best Short Story; Miss Starr’s Goodbye, a nominee for the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s Derringer Award; Coming Clean, a finalist for the Western Writers of America’s 2021 Spur Award for Best
Short Story; and A Bitter Wind, a brand-new novella in which Mary helps a young woman newly arrived in
the valley solve the mystery of her fiancé's death and his homesteading
neighbors’ bitterness toward him.
Includes an abbreviated bibliography and historical notes from the author.
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