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"Getting Mother's Body" ($15, originally $24)

"Getting Mother's Body" is the story a pregnant teen girl and her destitute family in 1960s Texas. The family sets off for Arizona to retrieve Billy's mother's body, and the jewelry supposedly buried with her. The tensions around whether she'll succeed builds plenty of suspense, but the more haunting question of whether it's possible to live with old ghosts gives the narrative heft.