Download or read book From the Crooked Timber written by Okla Elliott and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The stories in Okla Elliott's From the Crooked Timber are gritty and hard-edged in all the right ways. These are stories about people who are put-upon, either by their own missteps or circumstances beyond their control-stories about what it takes to keep placing one foot in front of the other. The tender longing on the underside of want is all through these pages. Elliott's prose is lean and stark but somehow suffused with an evocation of how life, given a little more this or that, could very well be."-Lee Martin, Pulitzer Prize-finalist author of The Bright Forever