![]() ![]() ![]() Bieker expertly wrestles with the bonds between mother and child, her own relationship to Central California, and ultimately “trying to make sense of something that is really hard to name,” she says. Heartbroke explores the choices people make when there are few, if any, good ones presented to them. The characters in this collection are mothers, children, teenagers, sex workers, and, above all, people who dream, hope, desire, and act out of need or love, or both. Like Godshot, Heartbroke is set in Central California, but the new book’s lens on the place is wider. ![]() Now Bieker is back with her first short-story collection, Heartbroke. The book made all kinds of best-of lists and was a finalist for both the Oregon and California Book Awards. In 2020, Chelsea Bieker released her acclaimed debut novel, Godshot, which followed an adolescent girl named Lacey May through the abandonment by her mother and the cult takeover of her small Central California town during a time of intense drought. ![]()
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