City of Brotherly Love Author:Ned Bachus A 2013 Independent Publisher Book Award Winner for Literary fiction! The people you meet in these stories are just like you and me. We struggle. It doesn't matter if we're black or white, male or female, deaf or hearing, divorced or married, young or dying, in love or out, kin or strangers, dog or human. How do we negotiate between what's inside... more » us and the world outside? That is the central question of realistic, day to day living and of these eleven honest and evocative stories in City of Brotherly Love. Some of these characters succeed in protecting others if not themselves, some learn what is or is not out there for them. Some participate in ritualistic bonding; some learn to go it on their own.« less