Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Promise of a Love Deferred | 2020 | Alicia Elliott | Buy |
Promise of a Love Deferred (2020) is a shorter work by Alicia Elliott, continuing her exploration of identity and emotion.
The piece fits between Elliott’s essay collection A Mind Spread Out on the Ground (2019) and her novel And Then She Fell (2023), showing her range as a writer of both fiction and nonfiction in shorter formats. It appeared as a standalone digital publication.
Elliott is a Tuscarora writer whose work often examines the tensions between personal desire and the weight of cultural expectation. Readers interested in her short fiction can use Promise of a Love Deferred as a brief introduction before moving to her longer works.