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Souls Wax Fair
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781068196348
Publisher: Friday Press
Published: Apr 17 2026
Pages: 430
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Mary Jane is eighteen and restless in a South Dakota town that has already decided what kind of girl she is. Beautiful enough to be watched. Young enough to be underestimated. Raised by a mother who drifts between men, money problems, and her own needs, MJ grows up learning early how attention works, and what it costs.
When she learns the truth about her father, MJ leaves home and heads south, chasing the promise of something better. What she finds instead is a version of America stripped of myth: intimacy edged with threat, generosity laced with control, men who mistake access for affection.
Souls Wax Fair is a coming-of-age novel about female desire, maternal damage, and the quiet negotiations women make to stay safe in a world that feels entitled to them. Set against the wide spaces of the American Midwest and South, it is a dark, intimate portrait of a young woman learning where power lies, and what it takes to keep hold of herself.
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