If I Had the Wings: Short Stories Taoist) From Zoroastrian sky burials to

From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls

and in the process

But a week before Thanksgiving

of black men and women

If I Had the Wings: Short Stories Taoist) From Zoroastrian sky burials toGrowing up gay in the small Greek Bahamian community, which feels its traditional culture and religious pieties are under threat, is fraught with constraints and even danger. The main characters in Helen Klonaris's poetic, inventive and sometimes transgressive collection of short stories confront this reality as part of their lives. Yet there are also ways in which young women in several of the stories search for roots in that tradition to find within