Talks With Dead Aunts: And Other Tales From the Isla Ajaja

By Carly Berg

The semi-fictional Isla Ajaja lies just south of the Texas gulf coast --- and just south of normal:

TALKS WITH DEAD AUNTS - In this novella, teenage Jaci Jenson comes of age the hard way in a 1970s beach town. The only thing worse than living with her alcoholic mother, overbearing aunt and houseful of ancestral ghosts, is living without them.

TALES FROM MISS ELLA'S HOME JAIL - Thirty-something Ella Schmidt presides over this story-collection-within-a-story collection. She evolves from town tattletale to strong leader--- of her very own, mostly legal, women's correctional facility:

* The Vase (available FREE as a stand-alone story, as of 2024)
* The Family Dance
* The Yule Tide
* Little Luxuries

LADY LAND - Decades have passed, to everyone but Gail. She's an older woman who liked the 1970s better, and she intends to stay there, secure among the vintage items in her resale shop.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0998671797
• ISBN13: 9780998671796
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: South Coast Books
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"