…a cast of what Sherwood Anderson and Flannery O’Connor called “grotesques”: misshapen people with wonderfully alliterative names like Mack Morris Murray, Libby Belcher, Paula Purgason, Mal Morris, and Hellbent Heidi…
…of preserving what little reliability I may still possess as narrator of these songs and stories; I have to own it; this brand of crazy is fully baked into me.”…
…prowess — so that Transcendent Kingdom tells several stories simultaneously. Alongside Gifty’s bildungsroman is her family’s story of immigration, from the tightly woven social fabric of Ghana to the isolation…
…his fiddle, which had been in the family for generations. The spirits, once awakened, began haunting Shady’s dreams, which quickly devolved into nightmares. But her father continued to play obsessively,…
…source for hope. But Berry’s vision offers no miraculous deliverance. “Its hardship is its possibility.” Trent Thomson and Amy Greene With Step into the Circle, editors Amy Greene and Trent…
…of ghost stories and mysteries alike will enjoy following the unlikely threads Dunbar weaves into spooky surprises in this dark novel, upending many traditional tropes along the way. In St….
