"These six stories focus on the transitions of cultural roots and a loss of sense of community: women who find themselves involved in one night stands leading to pregnancy in an era preceding abortion, substance abuse or gambling in an effort to flee a harsh life of poverty, and the bitter rejection felt by the aged in a society no longer respecting extended family ties."--BOOK JACKET. "This first collection of Hale's short fiction continues to engage readers by offering a forthright perspective on situations of contemporary Native and non-Native American women living and surviving outside of mainstream society."--BOOK JACKET. "The title story, "Women on the Run," describes Lena, an Indian writer who struggles to make a decent living despite being a well-recognized author and the winner of several awards. Lena meets Bobbie T., a former radical Indian woman who was involved in the fishins of the sixties and now has become a multimillionaire entrepreneur accused of Mafia ties and racketeering, which leads to political entanglement and a new book topic for Lena."--BOOK JACKET. "Claire, an eighty-year-old resident of a nursing home prison, listens to the voice that tells her, "You've got to escape this place and you've got to do it yourself. No one is going to rescue you." In another story of moving courage, twenty-one year old Alma escapes a battering husband and a life on welfare to attend Berkeley in the hopes of going to medical school."--BOOK JACKET.