Read these if you like Powerful Female Characters
Listing 3 stories.
A young girl obsessed with birdsong and other music finds a witch who helps her become a powerful and magical musician presiding over a remote coastal village. She becomes dissatisfied with the limits of her powers and decides to seek more.
A mother in a 19th century prairie town engages in a prolonged mourning process for her dead husband as she faces more tragedies and avoids her shady father-in-law.
A woman and the female captain her husband used to sail with begin a bitter feud. But when the woman embarrasses the captain in front of the whole town, she seeks revenge in a clever way.