"On the way out the door I turn to Gramma's whisper telling me to take a good look aournd when we get there. I wink back at her like we do, and then I'm gone. My dad is driving us back to Cruz's new apartment because my cousin forgot to bring his Christmas gift for Gramma."

"Cruz's New Place"

Tricia Bauer's new book, Father Flashes, won Fiction Collective 2's Cathering Doctorow Prize for Innovative Fiction. She has published four other books of fiction. She works in publishing in Manhattan and lives in Connecticut.

Join us at Books & Books in Coral Gables for a Blue Christmas Party this Saturday. December 10 at 7 p.m.

If you can't make the event, you can still buy the book here.

John Dufresne