Alexandra Marshall's essays and short fiction have appeared in AGNI, Five Points, Hunger Mountain, Literary Hub, Ploughshares, the American Prospect, the American Scholar, the Boston Globe, the New York Times, and in several anthologies. She has published nearly half a dozen novels and a nonfiction book, Still Waters.
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The Silence of Your Name revolves around the suicide of Marshall’s charismatic and idealistic young husband, Tim Buxton, while they were in Ghana with Operation Crossroads Africa—a progenitor of the Peace Corps. Marshall weaves in her husband’s hidd... SEE MORE