“[E]motionally raw but ultimately elegant. . . . Hughes brings the reader so close to each member of the Devlin family that when the faces come into view, we know the characters so well that their physical attributes seem beside the point.”
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““In ‘Pelican Song’, Mary-Beth Hughes proves that it’s possible to write well about domestic violence. Her story is smart, well-rounded, and avoids sentimentality at every turn.””
From a review of a collection of short stories that includes "Pelican Song," from Double Happiness.