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Sonja S. Mongar, MFA - Award Winning author...
A product of railroaders, ranchers, moonshiners and suffragettes, Mongar, was born in Montana – at the foot of the Bitterroot mountain range - in the Clark Fork River Valley. Yearning for greener grass, her parents made stakes in four states and two provinces before landing permanently in swamplands of Florida when she was a teen. But the traveling blues was already in her blood, so she kept on movin' - the marvelous adventures and shattering mishaps imprinting themselves upon the landscapes, characters, and dramas of her imagination. There will always be a train, a lost highway and a character adrift in her stories.
Educator, freelance journalist, memoirist, songwriter and blues harmonica pla ...more

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Two Spoons of Bitter

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