The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You: Stories

The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You is a collection of 8 intimate, character-driven stories that offer a "vivid and truthful" (The New York Times) portrayal of New Orleans, its people, and the frailties, struggles, and heart strains of a group of men who come down for foot-fixing conventions and brain-fixing conventions.

Maurice Carlos Ruffin takes readers on a rich tour of hardscrables New Orleans in his bracing latest.

The collection includes "Begot a Shadow," which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Open Book Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and international Dublin Literary Award and Center for Fiction OTalent “The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You” is an ode to all that makes us human.

Each story—Garden & Hill