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Jigsaw Puzzle

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Jigsaw Puzzle is a wonderful collaboration of two extremely talented people. Their work in this remarkable effort fits together in a marvelous pattern of puzzle pieces, the finished product showing the compliment of their joint efforts A mixture of poetry and short stories the work in this offering Describes various lives lived outside what we "romanticize" as mainstream America. The story from which the title of the book is taken Jigsaw Puzzle is wonderfully reminiscent of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow WallPaper yet Jigsaw Puzzle digs deeper to the bone. The entire collection serves up for our exploration various and diverse subjects ranging from agoraphobia to schizophrenia, racial histories and perspectives to incest, mental retardation to rape, institutonallism to drug use. It shows us a side of America that we often do not want to see, pretending these things never touch us while having the knowing inside that they indeed to spill and seep into the fringes of our lives.

Being the first publisher to present both Jenn and Tom's works via the Internet I take great pride in seeing this book come to print.