Stations of the Heart (Exile Editions, 2012) is a series of personal pilgrimages, about women who take huge risks, travel alone, love solitary men, yet remain open, feminine and vulnerable, whatever their sorrows and betrayals. With quiet intensity and progressive unfolding, what they experience as they carry their crosses from station to station – like a coupling and uncoupling of rail cars – are the almost-loves recognized too late in the rear-view mirror. “We will never meet in Barcelona. One of us will arrive too soon or too late, at the wrong corner, the wrong night.” In the end, Madott offers, like a form of communion, something scarce in our modern times – meaning. Click here for more information about Darlene Madott and her writings.