What We Do with the Wreckage

Stories

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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The stories in Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum’s new collection are about finding resilience in the face of adversity. Following losses big and small, environmental and familial, universal and personal, the best of us try to recover and rebuild. Lunstrum asks: How do we keep going in the face of grief or disappointment when love fails or disaster strikes? How do we maintain the stamina to carry on in an uncertain world? The characters in her stories are living these questions and learning to reconstruct themselves, their families, and their futures from the wreckage of their broken pasts.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-10-15
Mått140 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt321 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieFlannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
Antal sidor240
FörlagUniversity of Georgia Press
ISBN9780820353722

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Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of two collections of short fiction, This Life She's Chosen (2005, Chronicle Books) and Swimming With Strangers (2008, Chronicle Books). Her short fiction and essays have appeared widely in journals, including One Story, The American Scholar, Willow Springs, and Southern Humanities Review, and she has been the recipient of a PEN/O. Henry Prize. She teaches high school English and lives with her family near Seattle, Washington.

How rare is the writer who truly understands invisibility: the invisibility of being young and the very different sort that plagues those grown old; the fraught invisibility of motherhood and that of being a girl in this world who is disappearing from the inside out. Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum sees these people, gives them form and substance through language that is graceful and nuanced, at times humorous, nearly always compassionate, often (enough) hopeful. A beautiful, deeply compelling collection.