Read excerpts of the winning entries from the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards in poetry, fiction and non-fiction.
Special to the Arizona Daily Star The Tucson Festival of Books has announced the winners of the 2023 Literary Awards.
I always imagine it will be December when I die, perhaps I’ll be doing something I’ve done many times they’ll gather my body and carry me to the angel hotel, where the bread is sweet, and the music, even sweeter.“Body Memory”Kerri padded out to her ancient minivan, wearing tattered pink flip-flops and wrinkled sweats. She turned the music up as she pulled away; she needed to be immersed in it, tucked into that space where past memory and future worry dissolved into a singular, silvered moment, vibrating like the bass furiously shaking her ancient vehicle.
They never said it out loud but Squirrel knew. Kerri knew Squirrel knew but still they said nothing. The boys stayed busy, stayed away, but Squirrel sat with her dad like always, reading his old comic books out loud. He had quite a collection, but their favorite was Spiderman. When she got tired of reading she’d put on a Spiderman movie. “He likes it, Mom,” she’d say, lifting a lank shoulder then drawing it down, a bat folding its wing. Matt slept through just about everything now.
So, we sugared. We tapped the family maple trees and waited for sap to run. What else are you going to do in Vermont in March, just a treefall away from the Canadian border? At the end of winter, to mark the start of spring, you tap your trees for sap and then boil it for hours, days, to make maple syrup. It is ritual.
The sap would come from the tree, and we would collect it. We would tend a small fire beneath all this sap in a big boiling pan, it would take loads of sap, more than you’d ever think could be needed. We would make only a small bit of sweet syrup. We would watch it for scalding. We’d need to keep adding more. More sap and more fuel. More sap and more fuel to keep it going, to keep the appropriate balance in which it would distill but not be ruined.
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