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Nath Jones

Nath Jones

About

Nath Jones received an MFA in creative writing from Northwestern University where she was a nominee for The Best New American Voices 2010.  Her publishing credits continue to accumulate and include PANK Magazine, There Are No Rules, and Sailing World.  Nath’s work is influenced by small towns, small business, the army, the ocean, and cornfields. She is in the process of releasing four collections of short works and offering them to readers as e-books. Nath Jones lives and writes in Chicago.

Through the Eyes of Maria: Consequences

Through the Eyes of Maria: Consequences

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<p>Maria’s life shifts course when destiny brings her into the arms of Christian. His earnest kindness and generosity offer the potential for a future she never imagined possible. Afraid of pushing Christian away, Maria changes her identity and buries her sordid past.<br /><br />But when the truth threatens to expose her calculated deception, will Maria find the courage to face her demons and salvage all that's at stake?<br /><br />Or will Maria be forced to accept that she simply cannot outrun the shadows that chase her?</p>

Story Behind The Book

There were many reasons to write this book, but one of the most vivid occurred amidst the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. I was reading the news and came across a picture of a female soldier seeming to gloat above torture victims. The starving, bloodied men piled at her feet were totally dehumanized: naked, hooded, likely sodomized or just back from the water board. The female soldier--a young woman, a girl really--was smiling. I looked at that photograph as long as I could. I thought, "How could a woman do that?" Men, maybe. But a woman? No. And then I thought back to my state of mind when I joined the Army in 1995. Rage. Aggression. Violence. Lack of respect for others. Self-loathing. You name it. Whatever bullet-point is on the back of a brochure in a psychologist's office, I qualified. But I never went to war. Thank God. And I do not think I would ever have done what the woman in the picture was so happy to do. What I did think was, "How could I reach that woman? What might I be able to say to stop her?"

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<span class="commentBody">‎&quot;I was really blown away by this series of shorts.&quot; -- Ashton Amo<br /><br /><a href="http://ashtonthebookblogger.blogspot.com/2011/03/review-war-is-language-101-short-works.html"><span>http://</span><span class="word_break"></span><span>ashtonthebookblogger.blogsp</span><span class="word_break"></span><span>ot.com/2011/03/</span><span class="word_break"></span><span>review-war-is-language-101-</span><span class="word_break"></span>short-works.html</a><br /><br /> &quot;Her arsenal of words is substantial, and she has the same command of phonics that makes EE Cummings poems so effective.&quot; -- Alice Yeh<br /><br /><a href="http://www.hideandread.com/2011/09/war-is-language-101-short-works-nath.html"><span>http://</span><span class="word_break"></span><span>www.hideandread.com/2011/</span><span class="word_break"></span><span>09/</span><span class="word_break"></span><span>war-is-language-101-short-w</span><span class="word_break"></span>orks-nath.html</a><br /><br /> &quot;The third and final section about letters to a fake advice columnist was titled Letters When Gods Won't Do and this was my favourite section. Some of them were hilarious and I felt that I had to pass my Kindle across to my wife to let her read them, I think she started getting annoyed when I ended up doing it for nearly every letter at one point.&quot; -- David King <br /><br /><a href="http://killie-booktalk.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html"><span>http://</span><span class="word_break"></span><span>killie-booktalk.blogspot.co</span><span class="word_break"></span>m/2011_04_01_archive.html</a></span>