Mattaponi Queen by Belle Boggs “Belle Boggs
displays limitless empathy for her characters and their concerns and conflicts.
Similar in tone and structure to Russell Banks’ Trailerpark and William Styron’s A Tidewater Morning, Mattaponi
Queen’s goals and aims are as modest as they are all-consuming,
illustrating the type of lives forgotten about by the majority of Americans,
showing readers how people live. . . . this book is ripe with promise. Her
superior attention to detail and yeoman-like prose is a joy to read on the
page. People read debut story
collections for exactly this reason: to witness firsthand the arrival of a
talented new voice.”
Mattaponi Queen by Belle Boggs