Fiction. BADLANDS portrays the twenty-four-year marriage of Caro and Daniel Singleman--the marriage that was, is, and might have been. As the dying Caro confronts a night of crisis, the couple attempt to reshape the present by reconstructing the past through the interleaving of memory, hallucination, and dream. In this fraught terrain, BADLANDS explores two human mysteries--the inscrutability of the heart and the persistence of hope in the face of overwhelming loss.

Author City: Valley Forge, PA USA

Reeves holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College, and her novella Badlands won the 2006 Miami University Press Novella Contest and was published in 2007. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Crab Orchard Review and Ontario Review. Reeves lives near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, with her husband and two children. She's now at work on a novel-in-stories set in post-World War I Italy.