pstrongSpring 2022 Black River Chapbook Competition WinnerstrongppbrppThere's no such thing as society, Margaret Thatcher famously-and cruelly-proclaimed. There are individual men and women and there are families. Through three stories in Ten More Things About Usem, Nancy Welch illuminates the consequences of this philosophy-writ-policy in the very particular lives of women who labor to care for family as devastating illness frays familial ties and tests social consciousness.ppbrpp-----ppbrppI just finished reading Nancy Welch's brilliant TEN MORE THINGS ABOUT US. I'm writing from a hole in my heart because she's managed, through impeccable handing of detail, to remind me of life as it is, not the lucky life we sometimes live on the border of catastrophe. I love the way the stories overlap, points of view shifting, names and circumstances changing. Yet the stories resist the magnetism of chapters to stand alone, each one nudging us into recognition. Nancy Welch has written a powerful b