Stella Keeps the Sun Up Literary Fiction each essay in the collection

each essay in the collection is followed by a reader’s guide that offers further provocations on the subject

Between cooking favorite recipes—creole chicken with buttermilk waffles

Joy finds solace in a mystery letter writer there who seems to understand exactly what she’s going through

When strangers begin to arrive on their doorstep

Stella Keeps the Sun Up Literary Fiction each essay in the collectionIn this incandescently fun, hijinks filled picture book, a young girl schemes to keep the sun up in the sky so she never has to go to bed. If Stella had her way, she would stop sleeping on her sixth birthday. Because sleep is boring. And there are so many better things you could be doing. And Stella is tired of being tired. So she comes up with a plan. People only have to go to bed when it gets dark, and it only gets dark because the sun goes down. If