“The wind…mirrors Clark’s feelings…”

Story Carrier: A Collection of Tales of the Disappeared by Jane Clark traces the author’s unresolved grief over childhood losses through the West Texas landscape. The wind, an ever-present feature of the desert, mirrors Clark’s feelings of being uprooted and blown about, but later lifts her in ways that allow her to discover her family roots and to be planted among more nuanced memories of the women in her family. Helen Sitler, Ph.D., Professor of English Literature and Composition Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania