Hurricane Sisters

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Hurricane Sisters, award-winning poet Ginger Andrews second collection, contains poems of fierce candor and sharp, unique awareness from the perspective of Andrews herself, a cleaning woman in North Bend, Oregon. These Carver-esque insights into the everyday of the American working class balance grief, depression, lust, poverty, and, above all, faith; not in something beyond or higher than the living experience, but in a spirituality amidst the material truths of this world, even under the grimmest of circumstances. Hurricane Sisters stares into the holy, the barbaric, the beautiful and the hideous, the realities of blue-collar Americana, with the frankness and empathy of a survivor and a believer. It sees everything and never averts its eyes.

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Ginger Andrews was born and raised in North Bend, Oregon, and lives there still. She runs a small house cleaning business with her three sisters, who all live within walking distance. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, as well as in Poetry, The American Voice, The Hudson Review, MARGIE, Ship of Fools, The Oregonian, and The Writer. In 1997, she received the Mary Scheirman Poetry Award. She is a former secretary and janitor for the North Bend church of Christ, where she teaches Bible class to preschool children on Wednesday nights.