So unimaginable was a female judge that one newspaper reporter assigned to cover her first term of court in his county, despite knowing that the judge’s name was Susie, declared he was...

Anna Hayes was born in North Carolina but lived in San Francisco, Mexico, Guatemala, Africa, and France, among other places, before heading for home and settling in Chapel Hill.

And there was the language, always the language, flowing over, under, and all around her, enveloping her like music, wearing on her like the roar of traffic on a big highway nearby,...