Sue Ellen Learns to Dance and Other Stories — Judy Alter

Fifteen stories t that are funny and sad, modern and historical, urban and rural. They focus on women in the American West peaking in their own voices, sharing the universal female complexities of time and place. Characters -- old women, ingénue, bride, mother, lover, widow, homemaker, teacher, adventuress -- in settings of dance hall, ranch, town, wilderness, and home, each on a journey of finding self, getting by, making do, becoming, longing, recognizing sorrow, rejoicing.